Reviewer Role
Other
Date of experience with local authority
Local authority agree assess
Yes
Issue of ECHP
Yes
ECHP Time to put in place
9 months
Did you use mediation
No
Did you use tribunal
No
Rate ECHP content
Poor
Suitability of new placement
Terrible
ECHP Process Clarity
Terrible
Rate Communication
Terrible
Overall Rating
1
Your Review
The entire process was abysmal. We had numerous case workers throughout the process and had numerous (20+ emails) unresponded to. Despite clear reservations and problems with specific settings for both legal reasons and for specific personal reasons, LA took parental choice away and chose setting regardless of feelings and did not consider mental strain on the parent. LA offered zero support once EHCP was finalised and just told me to go to tribunal if I didn’t like it. My child should have started school one year prior to actually receiving a placement but have not heard from case worker since. I have needed to make my own contact with professionals and have had no support from the LA not had any check ins. No clarity on the process, the department doesn’t seem to know what they’re doing either and staff turnover is evidently atrocious. I strongly considered moving boroughs to give my child a better chance at education due to the lack of consistency and support received from Wokingham Borough Council. Truly awful, traumatising, stressful and disgraceful.