by admin6989 | 19 Mar, 2018 | SEN
The response of many people when hearing “fabricated and induced illness” (or FII) for the first time is likely to be: what’s that? It is certainly something to be taken seriously. The website of the NHS describes it as: “… a rare form of child abuse. It occurs when a...
by admin6989 | 10 Feb, 2018 | Disability, Employment Law, SEN
Last week the Court of Appeal upheld the earlier decision in Donelien v Liberata UK Limited; this related to the assertion by an employer that they did not have constructive knowledge of an employee’s disability and therefore had no duty to make reasonable...
by admin6989 | 8 Feb, 2018 | SEN
B-M and B-M v Oxfordshire County Council (SEN) [2018] UKUT 35 (AAC) The recent case of B-M and B-M v Oxfordshire County Council provides some much-welcomed clarity in relation the specificity that should appear in section F of an Education Health and Care plan...
by admin6989 | 19 Dec, 2017 | SEN
One question parents often ask us is: “If I don’t win my tribunal appeal, will I have to pay the local authority’s costs”? To answer the question, we first have to look at Rule 10, The Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Health, Education and Social Care...
by admin6989 | 19 Dec, 2017 | SEN
The recent case of KE v Lancashire County Council (SEN) [2017] UKUT 468 (AAC) provides a useful reminder of the importance of applying section 9 The Education Act 1996 when calculating comparative costs. The decision can be found HERE but in summary it involved...
by admin6989 | 18 Dec, 2017 | SEN
Welcome to the second in our series of myth busters! Today we ask whether the following is a myth or not….… “Is it true that where an EHC needs assessment is requested by someone other than the parents of a child or the young person themselves, if it is declined by...
