Hi - can anyone advise?
I have a third year student who is having to take her final year
spread over two years, due to disability related reasons.
This is a new DSA application, and I have just tried to contact her
LEA to apply for part-time DSA. There seems to be a major difference
in how she is classified - a part-time student on a part-time course
is eligible for part-time DSA but a part-time student studying on a
full-time course for reasons related to a disability is not eligible
for the DSA (at least the DfEE don't seem to have issued any regs
covering this one)
Has anybody else come across this situation, and what was the
outcome? The LEA are going to contact the DfEE, and in the meantime
we have to see how the department registers her - if she is part-time
on a full-time course she seems to slip through the net - wasn't this
the kind of situation part-time DSA's were meant to cover?
Elaine Shillcock
0161 275 2051
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University of Manchester
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