Legal Question
“My grandson, Nadeem, is living with me. His mum is a single parent and currently detained in a long stay hospital with mental health issues. Nadeem is struggling in school with serious ‘school phobia’ and wants to learn remotely, at home, until he feels more in control of his anxiety. Our Local Authority has turned down my request for an EHC assessment and plan, that would include SEND provision to be arranged remotely from where Nadeem’s living. I have requested remote education and regular support for Nadeem, from an education psychologist and mental health team. As his mother is on a Mental Health Act Section 3, and struggling with her own mental health, what rights do I or Nadeem have to make a statutory appeal to tribunal, with some urgency? We do not know if or when Nadeem will be in a position to submit an SENDIST application. What can I do as his grandmother to support him?”