Type of service: Advocacy (legal)

Independent advice about your rights and options including: Special Education Needs (How to obtain a diagnosis; Establishing your child's special educational needs; Defining what your child's education should be and obtaining it; Evidence and finding suitable experts; Assessments, Statementing and Reviews; Statement contents; Dealing with school refusal; Inclusion in main stream (if preferred); Independent specialist school placement; Combatting reduction in your child's specialist teaching or therapy; Enforcement of the provision in your child's statement; SEN Tribunals advice and representation); Exclusions (Advice and representation); Education otherwise / home tuition (Advice and representation); Admissions (Advice and representation); Former pupils (Advice and representation).

Aimed at: Parent/carer of a child