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Special absences, pedagogy and the local authority duty
Assesment must be systematic. In R (LH and MH) v LB of Lambeth [2006] 2FLR 1275, a chap,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 10,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], suffered from autism, gentle learning weakness, caustic epilepsy, and asthma. He had been statemented, and attended a non-residential school for children with learning difficulties.A psychiatrist told the local authority (LA) that the boy's mommy was near the end of her tether, and namely the location at home was crashing down. The mother requested a kernel assessment beneath the Children Act 1989, and an revision of the expression so he could go apt a residential school.The first kernel assessmentThe social worker noted that the boy's mother was act her best to encounter his absences, but was incapable to cope with his behaviour, which was affecting her cerebral and physical health.The social worker prepared a concern plan, recommending that he be taught at a boarding school. A suitable school was prepared to admit him. During the holidays, he would heed a local authority play scheme.What the local authority didThe LA did not implement the care plan, but mentioned its social services and educational plate would think the boy's circumstances, and that its social services division supported placement at a boarding school.In truth, meantime the social services department did aid such a placement, the schooling department thought that there was not educational reason for funding it.The mother became reduced. The social worker suggested that the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service might help: the lad did no misbehave at school, but only at family and, while he might have to attend a boarding school in the future, additional alternatives should be explored first.The expression was improved, and the LA said there was no testify that the objectives in the amended expression could be achieved solely along a residential placement.The second gist assessmentThe same social worker made a beyond core assessment. But the social worker now said that treads could be taken to aid the mother cope with the boy at home, and that a boarding school could be adverse.The mother told the LA that she was appalled by the core assessment, which included inaccuracies, and generalisations. She did not muse the social worker and LA had the boy's best interests at center, and believed that money was the bottom line.A beyond statement referred to the problem of the boy's conduct at home only obliquely, and recommended that the behaviour management strategies that would be accustomed at a non-residential school could be shared with the mother.Judicial reviewThe mother applied for judicial review of the new assessment, arguing that the conclusion that a parenting programme was able of meeting the boy's needs was irrational, and that the LA had failed to comply with its obligations to handle with the case for a entire, catching into list the boy's educational, health, and social care interests. The Children Act 1989 s.17 requires every LA to safeguard and enhance the welfare of children among its area who are in need: i.e. those unthreaten to effect rational health or development without LA services. The Children Act 2004 says that an LA have to make arrangements to improving the well-being of babies in its place (physical and mental health and mawkish well-being, protection from harm and neglect,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], training, and social and economic well creature).A flawed and irrational decisionThe judge, said that it was for the LA, and not the court, to determine among a residential placement and home assist. The court could decide whether the LA had carried out a appropriate assessment of the boy's needs. It had not done so.The LA's decision that its proposed package of patronize, many of which remained to be identified, was preferable to a residential placement, was seriously flawed, and irrational.There should have been a systematic assessment of the boy's needs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], taking into account his developmental needs, his parents' parenting capability, and kin and environmental elements, with cooperation among all agencies.The LA was in gap of its assessment obligations below the Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004.
The exclusionThe head teacher wrote to the parents of R and F telling them that neither R nor F could come back to school, but that they would be given help in completing their course at home. He should, of course, have told the parents immediately, ideally by telephone followed by a letter, of their right to make representations to the governing body.
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