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Please help me, i'm not sure what to do!!!!!!!

Coogybear

Please see my earlier post re 'I'm so angry' on the general chat thread.

Longman I'm in need of some urgent support and advice.

Following yesterdays poor meeting at the College to try and resolve the issues raised, my son went into College today to hand in the completed elements of his work and was asked by a member of staff to sign 7 or so pages stating he'd recieved SEN support. This included 40 or so signatures next to dates he's meant to have recieved the support, but hadn't. Only 4 genuine signatures were present on the page he signed, which were all he had recieved for one years alledged support.

He was also asked to plagiarize another students work today, in order to complete his final module for distinction submission.

I suspect that this is because he admitted in the meeting he had had no onging SEN support and had notified staff, but was essentially ignored and was relying on a fellow student to help him complete assignments because he couldn't manage as the college had denied him the softeware necessary to demonstarte his ability.

This issue is obviously very serious as it indicates a deliberate act on the part of the College to cover up their failings with my sons provision.

I'm agast and very angry, but my son is completely crushed that he agreed to sign something he could neither read nor understand fully. He asked staff what it meant, but was told it didn't matter and just to sign it!' naturally he complied, but later realized it was the SEN support register

A serious issue and one that im not sure what to do about, Please help me someone!!!!

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  • Longman, I asked for a bit of clarification on this and I got this back from our helpline team. I can make campaigns aware too. 

     

    We fully appreciate your comments and concerns and they have already been forwarded to the service’s manager.

    As a charity with funding and other constraints  we have to make many very difficult decisions about which services we can afford to provide and which ones we can't. As a result there will inevitably be limitations to what we can provide and it can be frustrating for us too as we would love to be able to provide every service and support an individual requires. Where that’s not possible we do our best to ensure that individuals are signposted to other services and organisations that can help  and, in the case of Further Education, there are already excellent services who are able and willing to provide advice and support to people with autism .  That said, we are currently exploring whether we can extend our service to include further and higher education rights and entitlements but it will take time to  raise the funds to do so, develop our own understanding of the legal and technical issues in  this complex area of law, and train our advisers. Until then please do contact the services we mentioned as they are already fully trained experts in this area of law.

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  • Longman, I asked for a bit of clarification on this and I got this back from our helpline team. I can make campaigns aware too. 

     

    We fully appreciate your comments and concerns and they have already been forwarded to the service’s manager.

    As a charity with funding and other constraints  we have to make many very difficult decisions about which services we can afford to provide and which ones we can't. As a result there will inevitably be limitations to what we can provide and it can be frustrating for us too as we would love to be able to provide every service and support an individual requires. Where that’s not possible we do our best to ensure that individuals are signposted to other services and organisations that can help  and, in the case of Further Education, there are already excellent services who are able and willing to provide advice and support to people with autism .  That said, we are currently exploring whether we can extend our service to include further and higher education rights and entitlements but it will take time to  raise the funds to do so, develop our own understanding of the legal and technical issues in  this complex area of law, and train our advisers. Until then please do contact the services we mentioned as they are already fully trained experts in this area of law.

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