Last Friday, I had to go and pick up Charlie’s belongings from his last placement. I was devastated, I really wanted this placement to work. That’s why I went to tribunal, so we could get the very best in education that life and our LA could offer. And is, it really is the very best for our local area. But, the school trauma runs deep. His challenges with education is far more complex than I could ever have imagined, and no one could of anticipated that this placement would not work.

But onto the next! As sad as it was to leave the independent specialist school behind, we are onto a new placement, a new challenge and a new way of educating Charlie and of course advocating. We are in new territory here, I thought SEN schools were new territory, this is like nothing I have ever faced before and I will be making sure I skill myself up as much as possible in order to support Charlie the best I can.

We are very close to finalising Charlie’s EHCP to include EOTAS, and I told Charlie yesterday that he was going to have a private tutor and he was so happy. He is over the moon to know that he will spend his days with me and have a tutor to support him with the more important topics. I just wish that they would hurry up. I can opened a new bank account with a separate bank, in order to receive the direct payment that we will need to finance Charlie’s new plan. There is so much to learn about this, I will have to keep the money separate (hence a separate account) I will have to keep receipts and invoices, a track of the money we spend and evidence how it all supports Charlie’s way of learning and development. It is a new way of education, a new way of learning, a new way of advocating.

Let’s hope placement 6 works!

Georgina x