Re: help please regarding accessibility
Hi there Woodstock,
We have recently had this discussion ourselves, except for secondary school.
We were told that each area has to have a fully adapted school. In our case our son’s catchment school is only partially accessible but another school in town is fully. We have been ‘advised’ to choose the fully adapted school as his catchment one does not have to adapt to his needs re access, as there is already an accessible school in town. If this makes sense, well done because I am confusing myself reading it!
I asked about choice of school as he will, hopefully, have a statement (in nightmare process at the moment!) which usually means it is our choice. This apparently does not cover access rights as our LEA has adapted a school already.
Luckily, we are perfectly happy to send our son to the adapted school as it is a good one as well but now we have just been told they can refuse us as they are now an academy! IMO it is all a minefield!
Sorry that I can’t help any more than that