Tag Archives: SEND

Local Offer website fails to meet standards under SEND laws

Posted on August 21, 2018 by insidecroydon

Parents and carers of children and young adults with SEND – Special Educational Needs and Disability – claim that the new, malfunctioning Local Offer website launched by the council last month is not only full of broken hyperlinks and broken … Continue reading →

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Council’s SEND website and a quest for the missing links

Posted on August 18, 2018 by insidecroydon

Croydon’s latest ‘digital offering’ has left parents and carers of some of the borough’s most vulnerable youngsters angry at the way they have been fobbed off with yet more sub-standard service. KEN LEE reports Neil Williams, Croydon’s recently appointed chief … Continue reading →

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Crisis in Sutton after Ofsted fails council’s SEND service

Posted on March 23, 2018 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: After Croydon’s children’s services was rated “inadequate” last year, now Sutton’s Special Educational Needs and Disabilities department has been found by Ofsted to be failing. And council attempts to suppress the report ahead of local elections have failed, as … Continue reading →

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Children’s services director responded to parents with threats

Posted on September 18, 2017 by insidecroydon

Ian Lewis, the council director for children’s services who left his job just before the publication of the critical Ofsted report into his department’s performance, has been accused of threatening worried parents who had turned to Croydon Council for help … Continue reading →

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Our three-year battle to secure education for our SEND son

Posted on July 27, 2017 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: In the past couple of weeks, Croydon Council’s press office has issued releases about a £1million grant for families of looked after children and a “virtual reality roadshow to let shoppers experience how autistic people can feel”. Yet … Continue reading →

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Council’s ‘Rottweiler behaviour’ sent carer to brink of suicide

Posted on July 25, 2017 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Last week, we reported how the Local Government Ombudsman had found “a catalogue of unacceptable failings by London Borough of Croydon, which has left a family stretched to breaking point”. Here, in a shocking criticism of the way … Continue reading →

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Croydon fined for abandoning autistic boy and his grandmother

Posted on July 17, 2017 by insidecroydon

Croydon Council has been ordered to pay £11,250 in compensation and has been sharply criticised by the Local Government Ombudsman for abandoning a grandmother with no help in caring for her disabled grandson for two years. The Local Government and … Continue reading →

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One-third of Croydon’s SEND budget is spent on tribunal work

Posted on March 27, 2017 by insidecroydon

Croydon Council staged a(nother) flag-raising at the Town Hall this morning, this time for World Autism Awareness Week. “Croydon Council is on a mission to increase understanding of what it means to be autistic and bust some of the most … Continue reading →

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