In my 'travels' supporting local parents, I have come across several instances where a child has been excluded from a lesson and/or activity at school because the appropriate support hasnt been in place.
I have passed the following information on to parents and am posting it here in case its helpful to others.
When your child cannot take part in a school activity or lesson because the right support isnt in place and your child misses the activity/lesson - that is an informal exclusion, and it is illegal. If you read this report http://bit.ly/vnZ1Me it tells you more. Ambitious About Autism's Parent Support Project developed a form to use to record every time your child is treated in this way. http://docs.com/G6I1. If you record these events in this way, it could help you challenge the bad practice and/or provide evidence to support a request for statutory assessment or provide evidence to help you in an annual review of a statement.
Zoe
