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Further Education Colleges

longman

I have been trying to find out about provisions for supporting autism at FE colleges. What I've got from the Department of Business Innovation & Skills is a bit of a mix.

I wondered if anyone attending Further Education Colleges had seen any sign of these provisions. I'm not doing a survey or anything. But it might help if anyone can confirm these initiatives are working effectively.

The Skills Funding Agency supports all students in FE colleges with an identified learning difficulty and/or disability, regardless of the learner's background and relative disadvantage.

The Public Sector Equality Duty applies in all F E colleges.

47 Equality and Diversity Partnership Projects were set up in 2012/13 and 40 more will be set up in 2013/14. For example Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College is working in partnership with "Ambitious About Autism" to support progression in vocational courses (is that really F E colleges?)

EHC Plans under the Children and Families Act are from September 2014 being put into practice for ages up to 25 and in FE colleges. Anyone seen any sign of this?

Even without an EHC plan F E Colleges are under duty to ensure provision for age up to 25

FE colleges have to admit a young person if that college is named on their EHC plan

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  • Thank you for your reply longman.

    I am autistic myself. I would imagine it is very hard for a non autistic parent to help their autistic son/daughter to make the right choices. I find it very hard to understand the "right" choices I have to make for my son.

    Personally I believe that he should have received support since primary school yet we are still battling for even recognition at GCSE stage.

    The only bullying we have been subjected to in high school has come from the school itself. As in the law states - every child has to recieve education until the Friday after his/her 16th birthday - I understood that every child is also by law entitled to an education appropiate to his/her needs but I seem to have been mistaken in that it appears that every child has to conform and comply to the conventional system.

    We really struggle to conform and comply to every rule and so we keep getting told off. This causes us more stress and so we retreat. But we get told off for this also. We end up being damned if we do and damned if we don't!

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  • Thank you for your reply longman.

    I am autistic myself. I would imagine it is very hard for a non autistic parent to help their autistic son/daughter to make the right choices. I find it very hard to understand the "right" choices I have to make for my son.

    Personally I believe that he should have received support since primary school yet we are still battling for even recognition at GCSE stage.

    The only bullying we have been subjected to in high school has come from the school itself. As in the law states - every child has to recieve education until the Friday after his/her 16th birthday - I understood that every child is also by law entitled to an education appropiate to his/her needs but I seem to have been mistaken in that it appears that every child has to conform and comply to the conventional system.

    We really struggle to conform and comply to every rule and so we keep getting told off. This causes us more stress and so we retreat. But we get told off for this also. We end up being damned if we do and damned if we don't!

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