Please Sign this Petition Urgently Time running OUT

by **claire** on Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:22 am

Help Needed. please help by signing this petition. this is a Shameful situation that must be stopped. Time the voice of the people spoke to let this goverment realise it is not acceptable. you can read all about Jodie Below..

http://www.jodiesappeal.co.uk/index.php

please sign this petition.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/LEAfight/

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to
review the Special Needs Provision and the post code lottery that currently
exists between different Local Education Authorities. All Local Education Authorities
should be made to ensure the parent's wishes and child's needs come before any
financial considerations.

Submitted by Sandra Scattergood – Deadline
to sign up by: 27 August 2008
– Signatures: 1,614

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/LEAfight/

Parents of children with Special
Needs have to fight to get an education that their children deserve. My
daughter and another child in our LEA suffer from Cerebral Palsy and have to
fight our LEA to get an education that will benefit them. Our LEA closed all
schools but one and considers this school adequate despite clear documentary
evidence that this is not the case. Parents are forced into a tribunal system
that claims to be independent and must fund the fight themselves. We are forced
to fund raise to place our children in a school outside the LEA area that has a
proven track record in improving the lives of children with Cerebral Palsy
allowing them to fulfil their potential in life. Currently only one of the
children attends this school and her place is funded by constant fundraising by
friends and family, she is the only child at the school who is not funded by
their LEA. The other child's parents are now being forced into independent
tribunals knowing that they have little chance of winning and face 14 years of trying
to fundraise in excess of £290,000 to give their child the education she needs
and deserves. This post code lottery is unfair and cannot be allowed to
continue

Please help.

Please sign this petition

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/LEAfight/