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Name: Steve McGuinness on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Michelle Watts on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Taylor McGuinness on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Richard Watts on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: S. Mills on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Yasmin Fryer on Feb 17, 2010Comments: Incompetence at local authority level needs to be rooted out. Get pro-active Lincolnshire, other authorities are not failing why should you let down so many who need your governance?Flag
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Name: Jo Minchin on Feb 17, 2010Comments: The whole thing has been rushed through with no regard to parental views and fears. We need training in place and safeguards the money will be used properly. Also a guarantee that children will still get a statement if the parents want one, even if they are in a lower band.Flag
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Name: Paul Battiste on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Wendy Wilson on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Carl Cooper on Feb 17, 2010Comments: Our children do matter, our children deserve all they are entitled to.Flag
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Name: William Yates on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Az Khan on Feb 17, 2010Comments: our children are our futureFlag
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Name: Sabrina Khan on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Sybil Yates on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anne Yates on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Marc Cooper on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Janette Robb on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Samantha Harley-Pesce on Feb 18, 2010Comments: The proposed changes are being rushed through without proper thought and planning and without really listening to the people involved - parents and teachers.Flag
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Name: Alan on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Karen Callander on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Terry Rutherford on Feb 18, 2010Comments: Yet again, another LA adopts their 'own style'. LA's adopting their 'own style' may well (probably) be acting illegally. 'Devolved Funding' is an example of a 'blanket policy' and is totally out of order - I quote from a letter sent to all Chief Education Officers/Directors of Children's Services by IAN COATES (then) Head of Special Educational Needs and Disability Division - dated 15 November 2005 (as far as I'm aware nothing has changed) - "Although local authorities appear to be aware that they must not operate a blanket policy for all children, some appear to believe that blanket policies can be developed for particular groups of children or certain types of need." "In some cases, authorities set out the child's special educational needs in detail in Part 2 of their statement but leave provision open to the school to determine completely or in terms of options, for example a particular number of hours support from a support assistant or a pro rata amount of time from a support teacher or some equipment, without specifying the provision to meet children's individual needs. Other authorities refer solely to a particular band of funding from their local system of calculating funding or a sum of money and do not always specify clearly the provision it is meant to fund. In our view, any local authority policy which prohibits, deters or even discourages its officers from specifying educational provision clearly and in detail and/or from quantifying educational provision for particular groups of children is likely to result in breaches of: • section 324(2) and (3) of the Education Act 1996, which provide that the statement must contain such information as may be prescribed and must specify the educational provision to be made for the purpose of meeting the needs identified in the statement; • regulation 16(b) of the Education (Special Educational Needs) (England) (Consolidation) Regulations 2001, which provides that the statement must contain the information specified in Schedule 2 to those Regulations, which requires educational provision to be specified in terms of "any appropriate facilities, equipment, staffing arrangements and curriculum..."); and • section 313(2) of the Act, which imposes a duty on LEAs to have regard to the provisions of the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice (2001), paragraphs 8.36 and 8.37 of which make clear that statements should specify the special educational provision necessary to meet the needs of the child, detail appropriate provision to meet each identified need and normally quantify the provision. In view of the recent cases we have had, I should be grateful if you would consider again the terms of the judgement referred to above, in particular paragraphs 14, 15 and 17 in which Lady Justice Hale notes that: "...the statement clearly has to spell out the provision appropriate to meet the particular needs of, and objectives identified for, the individual child" (paragraph 14); and ".., any flexibility built into the statement must be there to meet the needs of the child and not the needs of the system." (paragraph 15) "It remains the case that vague statements, which do not specify provision appropriate to the identified special needs of the child, will not comply with the law." (paragraph 17)" PLEASE NOTE THE PHRASE - 'will not comply with the law'. It is simple; it is basic; it is written in black and white - LAs that do not do it right 'will not comply with the law'. In that case they may be required to withdraw every Statement of SEN they have issued and re-issue them correctly. The correct (legal) procedures are in place, why are they being ignored by numerous Local Authorities?Flag
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Name: Lin Myers on Feb 18, 2010Comments: Don't rush this through. Get a better plan.Flag
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Name: Helen Docherty on Feb 18, 2010Comments: I wholeheartedly support this campaignFlag
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Name: Mrs Lynn Ingall on Feb 18, 2010Comments: not happy at allFlag
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Name: Glenda Stanton on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Matthew on Feb 18, 2010Comments: Steve as you always mention at our group meetings, as parents we ask for Clarity, Transparency and Accountability, keep up the geat work.Flag
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Name: Vanessa George on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Mrs Judy Saunders on Feb 18, 2010Comments: Schools are struggling to cope now with very little knowledge or support from County-how will they manage with the whole thing?Flag
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Name: Sylvia McGuinness on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Peter McGuinness on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Toni on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Olivia on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Lorna Brunsden on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ian on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Carena Redfern on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Kristen Redfern on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Wesley Platts on Feb 18, 2010Comments: This situation cannot carry on.Flag
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Name: Debbie Marshall on Feb 18, 2010Comments: It is obvious that in Lincoln, not every child does matter. Instead of our children get the right help they are going to struggle under the new system. It saddens me to think that money is always more important and that one day our children will grow up and struggle to find employment and sustain themselves. It will cost more in the long term rather than putting resources into our children now while they are young and giving them the best chance for a productive life.Flag
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Name: Natalie Everest on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Joe Ancliffe on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Deanne Longstaff on Feb 18, 2010Comments: Totyally agree without the correct trainning & planning this is dommed to failure. The schools could completly miss spend the money.Flag
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Name: David on Feb 18, 2010Comments: In a letter sent out to Martiln Hill by the Chair of the Autism group CAPAAS. The Chair mentions another concern is that having delegated all, or nearly all, of their SEN funding to schools, the local authority may argue that most 'special' educational provision is not technically 'special' any more — so, fewer children with learning difficulties have special educational needs. Strange that the letter has not even recieved an acknowledgement of receipt fromthe Councillor in question, no wonder there is no faith in the SEN system in Lincolnshire. Thank you CAPAAS.Flag
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Name: Karen Davies on Feb 18, 2010Comments: Without the correct training and guidance schools could well missuse and mis spend the money leaving parents and carers of children with SEN without adequate support for them.Flag
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Name: John Hunt on Feb 18, 2010Comments: My son has Aspergers and went to Carres. Due to his condition the school required extra resource to look after him. With this support he managed the difficulties of school and came away with 9 GCSE's. Without the support he would have been excluded and not got any. I understand schools like Carres will not get resources under the new scheme and children with Aspergers will be excluded from this type of good education.Flag
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Name: Lesley Mills on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Janet Taylor on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Laura Corby on Feb 19, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anna Kennedy on Feb 19, 2010Comments: Parental involvement is key in order for children affected by autism receive the quality education and care that they rightly deserve.Flag