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Statutory Assessment, Statement and Reviews
Statutory Assessment, Statement and Reviews
Sometimes extra support in school doesn’t make enough improvement and we need to find out (assess) your child’s difficulties so we can arrange different help.
We will ask you, the school and other people who can help, to write down everything we need to know about your child’s difficulties. When we have all of the reports we will send you copies and we will know whether we should make a Statement or not.
We aim to get the assessment finished within 18 weeks but some take longer if families miss appointments e.g. school doctors cannot finish their reports.
Statements
A Statement is a legal document, setting out the extra help and the name of the school at which it will be provided. We always invite parents to tell us what they think of the Statement by sending them a draft ‘proposed’ statement before we complete it.
Most children with special needs do not need a Statement (only 600 in Kingston) because they will have some extra help in school, known as ‘School Action’ or ‘School Action Plus’. After a Statutory Assessment we know if a Statement is needed.
Annual Reviews
If your child has a Statement, you can expect a review during the school year.
Parents are invited to an Annual Review meeting to discuss what is going well or could be improved. It is usually longer than the regular parents' evenings. There may be more people than at a parents' evening and you will probably feel more confident if you know what to expect.
Staying on after 16
From Year 9, each Annual Review will look at post 16, known as Transition Planning.
Your child can choose to stay at school or if they want to move to a college, a Connexions Personal Adviser will assess the education/training help they will need.
Connexions provides advice, information and personal development for all 13-19 year olds.
When your child leaves school, the Statement will lapse automatically.