Not sure how where the author lives but a benefit of a diagnosis isn’t care if you live in the SW London ICB area and I suspect that is similar in other areas #WeAreRichmond

The lost education #WeAreRichmond

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Harsh.

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The biggest issue for me is that EHCPs aren’t the holy grail that people think they are. LAs fail to deliver and that is if they can write an effective EHCP in the first place. #WeAreRichmond

Social services are ignorant about many topics. Especially when it comes to children’s care #WeAreRichmond

Unconscious bias, always looking to validate the problem and not open minded enough to help. Everything is outsourced and they take no responsibility either #WeAreRichmond

Maladministration. Breaching Data Protection. Seems they can get away with making it up and never have to change the false narrative #WeAreRichmond

No “rigour” in our EHCP. Even the fact that the EHCP is a legal document means nothing to our LA. They do as they please it seems #WeAreRichmond

Much needed #WeAreRichmond

Only Sheffield? #WeAreRichmond

Can’t even get an education school year 2024/25 and nobody is listening to the child #WeAreRichmond

I don’t know about fostering but the adoption system is broken WeAreRichmond

Where is Ofsted in all this. Councils have to notify Ofsted if a child is placed in an unregulated care home, no?

Not sure some specialist schools are that capable either #WeAreRichmond

I’d also like to see LAs not using this as a primary strategy to failed adoptions, when the LAs themselves lack an adoption strategy to support families in the first place plus lack an understanding of the problem. Regional Adoption Agencies don’t work #WeAreRichmond

Then you have the opposite end of the spectrum, where an LA focus on care home spending due to a lack of understanding adoption, breakdown through lack pratical help, and the needs of previously looked after children #WeAreRichmond

Soaring bills? Is it SEND or the mismanagement of SEND by LAs? I’d argue that it’s the LAs. #WeAreRichmond