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Parental Services Issues
The following represent the issues that have been noted as they have appeared in conversation with Steering Group members.
Direct Payments
Poor information
Too stressful to manage
Parameters too rigid
Out of County Placements
Why can we not provide for children in their community?
Care/Support Workers
Lack of staff with the right skills
Better training and employment conditions for staff.
Occupational Therapy
Why not offered to children with ASC
Speech and Language Therapy
Lack of therapists in school danger of untrained staff delivering programmes.
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Teacher’s understanding.
Teacher’s capacity to enable inclusion of ASC students in classes
Whole school policy
Genuine discussions with parents
BESD issues
Failure of teaching staff to understand the underlying SEN issues of BESD behaviour
Failure to accommodate; reasonable adjustment. Particularly in High School
