When you apply for an Education Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHC NA), there is a strict statutory process that applies.

School advice in relation to Educational Health and Care Needs Assessments (EHCNA) can be a bit like a SatNav. Very often it is OK. It might not be the best route, however, you will generally end up where you need to be eventually.

However, when the SatNav is playing up, the well-meaning bad advice from a school can cost months of inadequate education for a learner.

The day we told our 7-year-old son he was not going back to school for a while, and we saw the weight of the world lift from his shoulders, for the first time, I felt completely validated.

Doing what I do, I get to support parents at mediations. I see it as a huge privilege to be invited to attend a mediation meeting, and I hope that I am able to provide not only moral support but an objective viewpoint.