Update

UPDATE:

After my visit to PH school (Independent SNS) on Friday, which, as I  was advised by the council, asked about their weeks assessment program, I was told yesterday that NC council would not provide funding for Amira to attend an independent SNS at all, not even for the assessment.

If I take a step back, I can understand? Why would they provide the funding to go to an independent school when they have their own!

I really want to get across that I do not blame Amira's school at all, they have tried their very best to get through the red tape of council processes, the teachers all did their best with the limited knowledge they had of special needs. They filled forms out and applied to NC council in the way they thought it was to be done.
I do not blame NT council as they are trying their best to now get all of their information over to NC Council. Again, how can I blame NC council, when up until now they were completely un-aware of my daughter's situation as she was attending a NT school!

When one department says they have sent paperwork and another says it hasn't been received or that it wasn't filled out correctly and it has had to be returned and started again! Who do you believe? Where do you go next?  All I know is this,  my daughter is 5yrs old and now not getting any form of education, through no fault of her own or, might I add, mine. In most usual cases the council/education welfare team would send the child back to the school they came out of until another could be assigned, this, however, is not an option with Amira...so what now?

I have now contacted my local MP and today the Mayor of NT, if these 2 figure-heads cannot help, I am truly at a loss at who can. Surely I am not the only parent that lives on a border between 2 councils and their child has attended a school that belongs to a different council than where they pay their council tax to?  So, why is my child being ignored and left out? I am not asking for any kind of special treatment or for my daughter to be pushed to the top of the list. I am not insisting on any particular special school, independent or otherwise. I just want Amira to be placed in the right environment for her, to get an education and mostly for her to be happy. I really don't believe that this is asking too much at all.

Initially, I started this blog as a way of venting my anger, of documenting the steps I have taken so far and as a way of getting help and suggestions from friends. It has certainly helped me do that, but in doing so is also apparently helping others too and that, in turn, has really jeered me on! Hopefully, this will help other parents in a simillar situation and prevent them from having some of the same problems we are. I know this is nowhere near the end of our battle, but hopefully we are getting somewhere?

All I ask is that the process of getting children into the right school needs to be looked at. Maybe I should take this to goverment next and start a petition for a shake up? Or maybe go to the local press...or even to the national press?