Mackerel got another exclusion yesterday. Sent home during the day for elbowing someone - a teacher, I think. He's never been sent home during the day before.
Care home have a meeting in the morning, then something vague about a meeting with school "when that finishes" which they've invited us to. Would be REALLY helpful if it actually had a set time.
Then we have his regular placement review meeting later in the afternoon as well.
Hoping that the school meeting will say that they can't cope with him and that the LA will need to find another placement.
I have 1 wife, Kermit, and 7 kids. 3 of them - Mackerel, Fairy Basslet & Sprat - are adopted
Mom to BD (far older than I'm going to admit to - living nearby) and AS, Stig (15 - creating chaos at home). Supported by best friend (aka wonderwoman).
In an ideal world what should happen is a professionals meeting followed by a strategy meeting then a residential school for children with special needs found for poor Mackrel, accompanied with full family support and regular supervised visits hopefully working up to some overnight stays so the family can be a family...but this sadly is not an ideal world and it is most likely that school will say he is out of control and recommend a PRU and Mackrel will be told to behave etc etc and you and Kermit might just get a call about what time the meeetings are and if you are very lucky some form of minutes.....all poor practice...but I live in hope and hope that something suitable for all of you comes out of these meetings.
Mum to 3. DS, Bigly (21), DD, Middly (19), & DD, Littly (18) with sibling trauma bond, (placed at 8, 6, & 5) none of them are living with us anymore, some contact with all of them but very much on their terms. Grandparents and enjoying it.
OK. Got a school meeting at 2:30, other side of the county. Placement review meeting at 3:45 in our town. Good job I'm working from home today so can get to one of them.
Apparently the placement review is also a SERIOUS meeting...
I have 1 wife, Kermit, and 7 kids. 3 of them - Mackerel, Fairy Basslet & Sprat - are adopted
Mom to BD (far older than I'm going to admit to - living nearby) and AS, Stig (15 - creating chaos at home). Supported by best friend (aka wonderwoman).
Hello Corkwing - sorry I can't find the additional support board so not sure what has happened. If you don't mind I will tell you how I dealt with a very similar situation although I appreciate all authorities are not the same. My son was accommodated section 20 as Mackeral is and I managed to get him into an excellent residential school but not without a huge fight. I am unsure how old Mackeral is (sorry) my son was 15 but I managed to get him put back a year at school so he could complete two years at the residential school. We had enormous support from the school he was at as because they said they couldn't meet his needs it meant alternative education had to be provided for him. What we then did was fight for a statement of educational needs which indicated he needed to go to a residential school and even named said residential school. As I say it wasn't as easy as I make it sound here not by a long chalk but if you wish to pm me I am more than happy to explain further. Of course as I said not all authorities are as accommodating as ours was and it was a long haul but I would say those two years were enormously beneficial to my son (as you know he is posing many problems now but I dread to think where he'd be now without those two years) and had he been even younger would have been even more beneficial. Do pm if you need any help at all xxxxxxxx