School have taken my son off Iep

There probably needs to be another way of addressing this.

Autism is still little understood. So it is easy to see why, in a resource constrained environment, someone decides that they have to concentrate on "really needy" children, simply because the underlying nature of autism difficulties is not sufficiently appparent (I blame the parroting of the Triad of Impairments - it doesn't cover many real issues and it is too complex to get the important points across to teachers).

The current assumption is schools provide support, on their own terms. Indeed schools are very defensive against external interference. They insist on being the experts in teaching children with disabilities. If they aren't getting it right then there are grounds for more intervention.

Funding any change in tactics is going to be tricky. Maybe it will take a few better off parents to get this started, and though they may be sending their children to better schools, the problems may occur there. The other option is getting volunteers for this.

Local authorities have volunteers for the "Enter and View" scheme. Enter and View is used to assess care homes, hospices, special schools etc. Basically volunteers with some training go into places where disabled or elderly are cared for to make sure things are going appropriately. The resource is stretched but this is a model that could be adapted to support autistic children in mainstream schools.

Basically a case needs to be made for observers to go into schools to assess whether autism affected pupils are being effectively supported.

I anticipate this might only have to be done a few times for many schools to get worried.

But why shouldn't a parent be allowed to send someone to school with their child to make sure they are being properly treated in schools?

There probably needs to be another way of addressing this.

Autism is still little understood. So it is easy to see why, in a resource constrained environment, someone decides that they have to concentrate on "really needy" children, simply because the underlying nature of autism difficulties is not sufficiently appparent (I blame the parroting of the Triad of Impairments - it doesn't cover many real issues and it is too complex to get the important points across to teachers).

The current assumption is schools provide support, on their own terms. Indeed schools are very defensive against external interference. They insist on being the experts in teaching children with disabilities. If they aren't getting it right then there are grounds for more intervention.

Funding any change in tactics is going to be tricky. Maybe it will take a few better off parents to get this started, and though they may be sending their children to better schools, the problems may occur there. The other option is getting volunteers for this.

Local authorities have volunteers for the "Enter and View" scheme. Enter and View is used to assess care homes, hospices, special schools etc. Basically volunteers with some training go into places where disabled or elderly are cared for to make sure things are going appropriately. The resource is stretched but this is a model that could be adapted to support autistic children in mainstream schools.

Basically a case needs to be made for observers to go into schools to assess whether autism affected pupils are being effectively supported.

I anticipate this might only have to be done a few times for many schools to get worried.

But why shouldn't a parent be allowed to send someone to school with their child to make sure they are being properly treated in schools?