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To: Peter Aldous - MP for Waveney

URGENT - More SEN provision needed in Waveney!!!

We must obtain more funding for SEN (Special Educational Needs) provisions in this area. We do not have enough specialist schools or trained specialist staff to cope with the number of SEN children. Many are not even attending school, or only attending part time. Teachers can not cope. CAMHS is in special measures. CIR are overstretched. People are waiting a year before they can even see a pediatrician. The only special schools in the area are for children with learning difficulties not bright children who can't cope with mainstream school. Parents are being blamed and let down, classes are being disrupted, SEN children are being bullied and are not being given their full time education which is their right. Something needs to be done.

Why is this important?

Because children are being failed, families are becoming ill with stress and if something is not done now both the children and the local area will suffer in the future.

How it will be delivered

Email

Waveney District

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Updates

2016-03-02 16:48:02 +0000

Update from Lynne Thomas! Heard nothing more from MP.

We have good news about TWO NEW SCHOOLS in Suffolk for children and young people with additional needs. Suffolk County Council has started a commissioning process for a school for Autistic Spectrum Disorder and a school for Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs (used to be called BESD). The target date to open both schools is September 2017, although this timing is tight and it may slip to January 2018. The intention remains to locate the ASD school in Ipswich, and the SEMH school will be near Lowestoft, on the site of the old Carlton Colville middle school. Suffolk County Council has fully accepted that there are gaps in provision in Suffolk. It has taken 3 years to achieve this

1 Comment

2015-12-07 18:55:50 +0000

For anyone who is interested, we have held two meetings now with our MP and he is working on the issue. However it will take a long time and the latest answer is as follows: " The current intention is to submit an application for a Free School to run the school next October, with the objective of the school opening in September 2018." - the main issue is to find providers interested in our area. We have also held a meeting with the head of inclusion at SCC, who seemed to suggest something was being organised in lowestoft at present but I am not entirely sure how quickly this will happen or on what scale as yet. So to sum up we are pursuing this issue still but awareness is there and things will hopefully start to improve. i will update with more news soon.

2015-08-02 20:52:08 +0100

Have a meeting with our MP tomorrow to see what he says about this!

2015-07-01 18:26:09 +0100

I have emailed the to Peter Aldous with a long email describing the problems faced by many in our area. I will update with his response if and when I receive it!

2015-06-03 22:06:24 +0100

100 signatures reached

2015-06-03 19:00:18 +0100

50 signatures reached

2015-06-03 17:06:54 +0100

25 signatures reached

2015-06-03 16:44:14 +0100

10 signatures reached