They Won!

Excuse the dodgy photo of the iPad screen. The back story, from which this photo comes, is here. http://www.stroudlife.co.uk/Parents-battle-Amalie-place-St-Rose-s-School/story-27552007-detail/story.html

Basically, the parents of a severely disabled girl who had been in our nursery for several years were denied a place for her at the school. The council wanted her to go to the local ( 4 miles away) special school, which does not have the same expertise at dealing with children with complex health needs, nor the quieter environment that her parents wanted for her.

We heard today that her parents won their tribunal, and Amalie starts at school tomorrow. We'd already started prepping her for life in 'big school' before she left nursery, so it won't be a shock, even given the long gap. It'll be lovely to see her around school again, and it's a real victory for the principle of parental choice, which is supposed to be supported within the Education, Health and Care plan framework. (This replaced the Statement of Special Needs framework in 2014).

In other news, the house and cat sitting arrangement we made for Bomble, back in September, has fallen through. Argh. Only nine days for me to arrange something else. Anyone fancy Christmas in the Cotswolds with central heating, a coal fire, and a companionable cat?