Call IPSEA i would!

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who is your early years advisory teacher ? get hold of who ever it is an insist on them helping you to place your daughter in the nursery of your choice. i asume you want your children in the same school, the nursery has no choice and cannot say no. the AT should be able to help them access emergency funding and support your child while a statement is being written. I belive if you feel a special needs school placement is more suitable you then have to ask your LA for a emergency placement and that can be given before a statement is written. the code of practice tells you everything its worth getting especially if you are looking at statements as they are not usually written well and it will provide you with your rights.

thank you ! ill wait and see what happens for now

my son is in a private day nursery 3 days a week he has not yet got a statement we are just about to start the process. alex has funding from early years 9,000 pounds a year for additional staff. the nursery dosnt do one to one they increase the ratio of staff, this gets alex used to all staff they can therefore share the workload and cover staff absences. approx eight special needs children in our borough have had there funding taken away from them because of cutbacks with early years funding, at the moment i have managed to slip through the net!! i thought that schools and nursery cannot refuse a child on the basis that the child has special needs? unless they already have special needs children and cannot accomodate more because of space needed for equipment?

Did you give IPSEA a call for guidance at all?