Debbie and Michael are still fighting the local authority for Ryan to be able to go to Woodlands School.   They and Ryan have visited the school quite a few times now and it is certainly the best place for him.

The Local Education Authority (LEA) want Ryan to go to a school in Cornwall called Doubletrees.  Ryans present school agree that he is not suited to Doubletrees and would be much better off at Woodlands.   However, Doubletrees is in Cornwall and Woodlands is just across the County border in Devon.   It would be cheaper for the LEA if Ryan went to Doubletrees.   They say that cost is not why they are refusing to fund his education in Woodlands ! ! ! !    Debbie and Michael are being helped by the Parent Partnership who are wonderful.  They have been to Mediation (the Mediator did not seem very impressed by the LEA representative) the next step is a Tribunal.

Woodlands Special School have told us that they already have pupils from Cornwall (even one from our own town of Bodmin) so the LEA must have been mistaken when they said that Woodlands only took pupils from Devon.   Ryan has a place there and will start in September.   Debbie and Mike will be transporting him from Bodmin to Plymouth each day.