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Parents rightsStirling believes strongly in working in partnership with parents to secure the best education for their children and to promote their child’s health, development and welfare. It wants to ensure that parents are fully involved in the decisions affecting their children and that they are aware of their rights in this respect. Parents have specific rights under the ASL Act, listed below. These rights also apply to young people aged 16 or over.
Parents have the right:
• to ask the Children's Services to find out whether their child has
additional support needs.
• Request a specific type of assessment and/or examination for their child when Children's Services is proposing to formally identify through the staged intervention process, whether they have additional support needs.
• Receive information or advice about their child’s additional support needs.
• Be involved in planning to meet their child’s educational objectives.
• Ask Children's Services to find out whether their child requires a co-ordinated support plan, and/or to review an existing plan.
• Request a specific type of assessment and/or examination to find out whether their child requires a co-ordinated support plan.
• Be asked their views and have them taken into account and noted in the co-ordinated support plan.
• Receive a copy of the child’s co-ordinated support plan.
• Have the case heard by an Additional Support Needs Tribunal if involved in a dispute relating to a co-ordinated support plan.
• Make a placing request to a special school if their child has additional support needs. Parents can appeal against Stirling Council's decision to refuse the placing request. The appeal would go to an education appeal committee if the child has additional support needs, and an Additional Support Needs Tribunal if they have a co-ordinated support plan.
• Have their views considered and be involved in decision making.
• Have a supporter or advocate present at any discussions or meetings with the authority when the child’s additional support needs are being discussed.
• Have free independent mediation services which can be used at any time to address any issue or misunderstanding about the child’s additional support needs.
• Make a reference to the Additional Support Needs Tribunal for decisions about a csp or placing request (as above).
• Have a supporter or advocate present at a Tribunal Hearing.
| Parents and professionals The Act places great importance of building strong relationships between parents and professionals - this is one of the key principles underpinning the ASL Act. view video clip. |
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