Child tax credit & dyslexia

longhotbath

Hi Leese254,
who diagnosed your daughter as dyslexic - was she tested through school or a gp referral?

In this county, Private educational psycologist reports are not used in diagnosis - it has to be through a LEA ed psyc.

There are 3 levels of additional help that a school can give a child - they are school action, then school action plus, then a statement of sen.
Statements are not being phased out, but they are difficult to get as they are expensive, and the LEAs want to save money.

Download or read the SEN code of practice www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/3724/SENCodeOfPractice.pdf
and the SEN toolkit www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/sen/sentoolkit . Both are good bedtime reading zzzzzzz.

Then go to the IPSEA website and look under standard letters https://www.ipsea.org.uk/sevenfixes.htm , and write to the head of your LEA requesting that they assess your daughter for a statement. A rigid process will then start, and you will know within 6 weeks whether the LEA will provide a statement, or a note in lieu (giving reasons why they do not think a statement is appropriate).

The letter to the LEA is better comming from you rather than the head - the head will not want to spend money, and as a parent - you have a right of appeal to a note in lieu - which the school does not have.

The code of practice is not law - only a guideline.

It may be that your daughters needs could be met tthrough school action or school action plus.

best wishes.

Vicky123

For definitions of dyslexia
check out http://www.dyslexia.uk.com/page30.html
Vicky