Broken SEND #7
The Empire Strikes Back! I am just about to head into Mediation following the LA refusing to acknowledge my son's needs in his EHCP document. It's completely understandable as they are saving money through delay and the small chance of success. Mediation is a process with guaranteed confidentiality for both parties (although what goes on behind closed doors in the Council cannot be known), and so I will be severely limited in terms of what I can report here. But, I can tell you what I expect to happen. And through telling the stories of the outcomes you can make your own minds up as towhether I am right or not. For this mediation, I sort of insisted that a member of the team working on my son's case attend. This was on the basis that the last mediation we had this didn't happen and a random regional manager attended, didn't know anything about our case, and was totally ineffective in delivering what was agreed. The first thing that happened is t...