Oops. Sorry about smug-meant to be internal email on surviving freshers
week. As you can see it's taken it's toll and I can't tell the
difference between forward and reply! I'm hoping that we have got the
most crucial cases dealt with now- set up with support workers, but
we're using a loan scheme to cover the delay in equipment provision.
Good luck for all those still to hit freshers week!
Jo
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support
>staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of George Bell
>Sent: 15 September 2004 23:48
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: DSA 2004/05 Delays
>
>
>I don't think you are alone, Ian.
>
>We are at the end of the chain, and quite frankly whilst
>we're on the one hand happy for the business, on the other,
>we're beginning to get more than a shade impatient with the
>demands for immediate supply. And it doesn't just come from
>the students either. We're also getting calls from parents,
>thinking that of they yell at us, we'll respond better.
>
>George Bell
>Techno-Vision Systems Ltd., U.K.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Discussion list for disabled students and their
>support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
>Of Ian Francis
>Sent: 15 September 2004 22:41
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: DSA 2004/05 Delays
>
>Hi
>I've had some serious problems with email over recent months
>so haven't been able to keep up with dis-forum discussions.
>I notice Andy Verlade brought up the issue of the delay in
>processing DSA applications this summer back in August but
>there doesn't seem to have been much discussion about this.
>
>There seems to have been some serious problems with
>referrals for DSA assessments to Assessment Centres this
>summer. There was a point in the summer when assessment
>referrals almost dried up. Now I'm seeing some students with
>complex needs very late in the summer who I should have seen
>weeks ago. They are unlikely to get their DSA sorted out until
>way into the first semester. Are other assessors finding this
>or are my students just the unlucky ones?
>
>This suggests disability officers will have some pretty
>desperate students to support this year. Imagine if every
>student with a serious physical or sensory disability applied
>through clearance.
>
>What arrangements are people making to ensure at least
>personal assistance needs can be funded at the start of term
>if the DSA assessment has yet to be received, never mind
>approved, by the LEA? Are people planning to use the Access to
>Learning Fund to cover interim 'emergency' payments for
>personal assistance, travel costs etc? Are people using
>Premium Funding to build up stocks of loan equipment? Am I
>just over-reacting?
>
>It puts an incredible amount of pressure on assessors,
>assessment centre administration, LEA awards officers and
>disability officers to sort this sort of mess out. Can we seek
>some assurances from the "powers that be" that this problem
>won't occur again next summer?
>
>Ian Francis
>
>
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