Nursery Visit

10 Oct

So, today was the day Naomi and I went to check out the Nursery the LEA had recommended Megan goes to.

It’s a lovely nursery- no question. The staff are dedicated and knowledgeable about Nursery education, the areas reasonably nice and its fairly accessible. However, it became clear during the interview with the Head Teacher that our case worker at the LEA had been ever so slightly economical with the truth regarding Megan- either that or she didn’t know and couldn’t be arsed actually finding out.

A small example- the Nursery concerned don’t have a nappy changing facility. Megan wears nappies. The EP who did the assessment noted this fact on his visit. Conclusion: The case worker goofed. Another example- the Nursery itself is a mainstream one. Putting aside the fact that both the CDC and the EP recommended an SEN place for Megan, we thought this would be no problem as obviously (ha!) either the Nursery have enough staff to ensure someone would be allocated to Megan or staff to pupil ratio would be low enough to make this requirement unecessary. Wrong. On both counts.

Anyway, when we got back (bless their hearts, the Nursery still bravely offered us a place but it was obvious their heart wasn’t really in it) I phoned the case worker at our LEA and put some of these facts to her. She ummed and aahed a bit so I insisted we arranged a meeting to thrash this out. Which to my total shock, she agreed to!! She’s even involving her line manager!!!!

I think its time we involved our local Parent Partnership in this as we hear they can be very good mediators and we just want this sorted.