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For immediate release – 16th January 2013
TRIBUNAL
STANBRIDGE
INDEPENDENT
RESIDENTIAL
VULNERABLE
DISABLED
“INEXCUSABLE”. THE PUPIL WAS A VICTIM OF GROOMING AND
SEXUAL ABUSE BY MALE PUPILS AT THE SCHOOL. THE FAILURE TO
SAFEGUARD
“GRAVE
CONCERNS
MANAGEMENT, PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS, COMMUNICATION,
EDUCATIONAL PROVISION AND SAFEGUARDING OF PUPILS” AT THE
SCHOOL.THE SCHOOL HAD NO UNDERSTANDING OF ITS DUTIES.
THE TRIBUNAL CONCLUDED SERIOUS CONCERNS NEEDED TO BE
ADDRESSED BY OFSTED, THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
EDUCATION AND HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL WHO THE TRIBUNAL
WISHED TO ALERT; OTHER LOCAL AUTHORITIES SHOULD ALSO
CONSIDER THE PLACEMENT OF ITS PUPILS AT THE SCHOOL, GIVEN
THE HEAD TEACHER, MR PETER TRYTHALL’S CONDUCT “BORDERS
ON CONTEMPT FOR STATUTORY DUTIES”.
Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs and Trustee of SOS!SEN Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority Ref: 385837 Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 THE TRIBUNAL CONCUDED THE DESIRE OF PARENTS TO PURSUE
THE TRUE FACTS AROUND THEIR DAUGHTER’S SEXUAL ABUSE WAS
“NOT SURPRISING”.
SEN Legal, on behalf of our clients Mr and Mrs C and their daughter Miss C, a highly
vulnerable disabled child, welcomes the decision of the Special Educational Needs
and Disability Tribunal relating to the failure of Stanbridge Earls School to
safeguard Miss C from sexual abuse and harm. The School directly discriminated
against her; failed to make reasonable adjustments for her disabilities and was
responsible for “procedures which were unsystematic, unprofessional and
completely inadequate”. Rather than supporting the victim of abuse, the school
discriminated against her by permanently excluding her from school, whereas the
male peers responsible for the abuse were able to remain as pupils at the school
educated alongside other vulnerable female pupils.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council continues to investigate the school nurses, in
particular, Mrs Melanie Bavington regarding their professional conduct; further the
General Medical Council continues to investigate the School’s Medical Officer, Dr
Scriminger, a GP from Romsey commissioned by the school to provide medical
services. Both bodies have held interim hearings in an attempt to suspend the
practitioners’ registrations.
Summary of Main Findings:-
THE CIRCULATION OF THE TRIBUNAL DECISION IS IN THE WIDER PUBLIC
INTEREST;
THE FAILURE TO SAFEGUARD IS INEXCUSABLE, ESPECIALLY AS MISS C
WAS UNABLE TO PROTECT HERSELF;
Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 THE FAILURE TO INFORM PARENTS OF THE ABUSE WAS “SHAMEFUL”;
SERIOUS CONCERNS AROUND THE SAFEGUARDING, SPECIAL
EDUCATIONAL NEEDS PROVISION AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST
DISABLED PUPILS WHICH THIS CLAIM EXPOSES NEEDS ADDRESSING BY
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EDUCATION; OFSTED AND HAMPSHIRE
COUNTY COUNCIL;
FAILURE TO ACT BY STANBRIDGE EARLS SCHOOL IS BEYOND THE
TRIBUNAL’S COMPREHENSION;
ALL PLACING LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO BE MADE AWARE OF DECISION;
PARENTS DESIRE TO PURSUE THE TRUE FACTS IS “NOT SURPRISING” AS
MISS C’S EXPERIENCES AMOUNTED TO ABUSE CAUSING MISS C AND HER
PARENTS CONSIDERABLE DISTRESS AND DAMAGE;
SCHOOL FAILED TO PROTECT MISS C FROM THAT ABUSE; AND FAILED TO
PROVIDE APPROPRIATE CARE OR PROTECTION;
PUPIL VICTIM OF GROOMING AND SEXUAL ABUSE BY MALE PEERS;
HEAD TEACHER MR PETER TRYTHALL CRITICISED FOR CLAIMING NOT TO
KNOW NON-CONSENSUALSEX WAS RAPE AND THAT AS A HEADTEACHER
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WELFARE AND SAFEGUARDING OF MISS C CHOSE
TO ENGAGE IN SUCH A ‘SEMANTIC’ DISCUSSION;
TRIBUNAL DESCRIBES HEADTEACHER’S CLAIMS REGARDING ABUSIVE
Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN PUPILS REPRESENTED NORMAL PUPIL
BEHAVIOUR AS “EXTRAORDINARY”;
HEADTEACHER’S CONDUCT BORDERS ON CONTEMPT OF STATUTORY
DUTIES AND THAT HE ALONG WITH HIS STAFF SHOWED A FAILURE TO
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND A “DEPLORABLE TENDENCY TO SEEK TO
PLACE BLAME ELSEWHERE”;
DESIGNATED CHILD PROTECTION OFFICERS MR ROB BAILEY AND MRS
CALLENDER FAILED TO TAKE ACTION TO SAFEGUARD MISS C. MRS
CALLENDER’S APPROACH WHEN DISCOVERING ABUSE WAS
“ARROGANT”;
NEITHER THE HEAD TEACHER PETER TRYTHALL OR MRS FRANCIS
CALLENDER CHILD PROTETION OFFICER DEMONSTRATED A
COMMITMENT TO BE HONEST IN THEIR TESTIMONY; THEIR EVIDENCE DID
NOT SHOW REGARD TO BEING ACCURATE OR TRUTHFUL;
SCHOOL CHARACTERISED AS NOT ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY;
SCHOOL’S RECOLLECTIONS AND CONSTRUCTED RECORDS DID NOT
HAVE HALLMARK OF RELIABILITY;
SCHOOL WASTED TRIBUNAL TIME WITH ARGUMENTS WHICH WERE
UNSUSTAINABLE AND SCHOOL MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILTY FOR ITS
CONDUCT;
MRS MELANIE BAVINGTON SCHOOL NURSE FAILED TO TAKE STEPS TO
PROTECT MISS C IN LINE WITH HER DUTIES AS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE
SCHOOL REGARDLESS OF HER DUTIES UNDER THE NMC;
Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 MRS BAVINGTON AND THE SCHOOL DOCTOR, DR MARK SCRIMINGER
FAILED TO LIASE ADEQUATELY OR APPROPRIATELY WITH SCHOOL STAFF
AND THAT FAILURE, BY NOT CALLING A STRATEGIC MEETING, TO PLAN
APPROPRIATE ACTION LED TO A VULNERABLE CHILD BEING TAKEN
ADVANTAGE OF BY PEERS;
TRIBUNAL WHOLLY IN AGREEMENT WITH PARENTS’ CRITICISM THAT MRS
BAVINGTON FAILED TO SAFEGUARD THEIR VULNERABLE DAUGHTER,
FAILED TO COMMUNICATE WITH HER EMPLOYER AND THAT IT WAS NOT
APPROPRIATE FOR MRS BAVINGTON TO MAKE INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS
AND SHE FAILED TO EVALUATE RISK;
MISS C’S EXCLUSION AND PREVIOUS ABUSE WAS AS A RESULT OF
SCHOOL’S “INCOMPETENCE;”
Background
Miss C, now 17 years old, is highly vulnerable because of her autism. She presents with the social skills and social understanding of a 7 year old child. She has significant mental health difficulties being under the care of a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She has limited mental capacity and was not considered Gillick competent prior to turning 16. Indeed, even now, at the age of 17, she still would not be Gillick competent. Miss C attended Stanbridge Earls School, a residential special school in Romsey Hampshire, as a boarding pupil from September 2010 until September 2011. In June 2011, at the age of 15 years, Miss C sought assistance from Mrs Bavington, a registered nurse employed by Stanbridge Earls School since 2003, for vaginal injuries Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 including bleeding, abrasions and tears to her vaginal passage, which required immediate medical intervention. It is accepted that the injuries had been caused by an older male peer, on school grounds following an alleged sexual assault of Miss C. Mrs Bavington informed the pupil’s House Parent, Mrs Frances Callender and another member of school staff Mrs Lorna Bailey of those injuries. Mrs Callender is in fact one of the School’s designated Safeguarding Officers, who as such must be fully familiar with safeguarding procedures. Miss C’s vaginal injuries were treated by the school’s medical officer, Dr Mark Scriminger at his surgery. All three members of staff and Dr Scriminger chose not to report the matter to parents, the Deputy Head Teacher, Mr Rob Bailey or to inform Local Safeguarding, despite school policies being in place for them to do so. Despite the vaginal injuries caused by an older male peer Miss C was returned to the school and continued to be educated alongside the male peer who effectively was granted direct unsupervised access to Miss C during the waking school day. As a consequence Miss C was placed at further risk harm and abuse. In July 2011, Miss C complained to her parents, when she returned to her family home from school at the end of term, that an act of non-consensual sexual intercourse (rape) had taken place. This was in addition to the sexual assault of June 2011, which her parents at that time remained totally unaware of. The abuse of Miss C was permitted to continue due to the lack of meaningful supervision and safeguarding procedures being put in place by the Head Teacher, Mr Peter Trythall or the Deputy Head of Pastoral Care, Mr Following intervention from SEN Legal and protracted efforts on behalf of its clients to obtain Miss C’s school and medical records, over a substantial period of time, the vaginal injuries caused to Miss C, which Mrs Bavington, Mrs Callender, Mrs Bailey and Dr Scriminger were fully aware of and recorded in the school’s medical records, were finally and fully disclosed to parents. The parents were shocked and dismayed by the disclosures, which listed a catalogue of other inappropriate incidents around their Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 daughter, none of which they were informed of or were aware of. It was disclosed other vulnerable and under-age female and male pupils had also engaged in sexual activity and sexual intercourse during the short period Miss C had attended the school, which members of staff were fully aware of but failed to report either to Local Safeguarding, the pupils’ parents or follow any recognised local safeguarding procedures. This decision exposes the failures of the school and the conduct of staff. A complaint regarding the alleged failure of Mrs Bavington to safeguard a vulnerable disabled pupil, namely our client Miss C, was made to the Nursing & Midwifery Council as soon as the medical records were received and examined giving full disclosure of the vaginal injuries our client had suffered. A complaint was also made for the alleged failure of Dr Mark Scriminger, a GP based in Romsey, and the School Medical Officer to follow recognised safeguarding procedures to the General Medical Council, whose investigation is ongoing. Both the GMC and NMC have held interim hearings in an attempt to restrict both health professionals’ registrations. Melinda Nettleton, Solicitor comments:
“As a solicitor who has represented many pupils with special educational needs over a substantial number of years, and having also been employed as a Senior Crown Prosecutor who was responsible for the three child protection teams in Suffolk, prosecuting sexual assault and abuse relating to children and vulnerable adults and having lectured nationally on sexual offences for the Crown Prosecution Service. On behalf of my client Miss C and her parents, I welcome the decision of the Tribunal in what is a deeply disturbing and troubling case. The conduct, the safeguarding failure, the discrimination and the credibility of Mr Trythall and his staff are laid bare in this decision. Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 The Tribunal decision reflects the fact that when schools fail to act in the interest of their pupils, it does not just relate to a failure in a professional duty of care towards that child, but it can also be considered as an act of discrimination, in this case disability discrimination. Proceedings are ongoing regarding sex discrimination and further proceedings, in relation to neglect by the school of Miss C are being considered. My clients’ case appears to raise serious issues in how schools, (whether local authority maintained or independent); school employees; and local authorities address, report, and investigate safeguarding issues, especially around pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. The assumption in this case was that school’s staff’s conduct and accounts, which proved to be wholly unreliable should be given more weight than the evidence of a vulnerable child, despite this child seeking assistance from professionals in June 2011, nearly every day whilst attending the school. This is staggering in my professional view. We are also increasingly seeing through exposure in the media the physical, emotional and sexual abuse that vulnerable teenage girls are experiencing at the hands of male peer abusers, often resulting in tragic circumstances. It is likely that my clients and Miss C will now seek damages against the School Governors; additionally they will also be fully exploring possible legal proceedings against named individuals, which include Mrs Frances Callender, Mr Rob Bailey, Mrs Lorna Bailey, Mrs Melanie Bavington and Mr Peter Trythall concerning what appears to be a failure to act towards Miss C in accordance with their professional duty of care, given those adults were acting in loco parentis. The school’s own policies highlight this legal option and legal liability on individuals who are considered as acting unreasonably when fulfilling their duty of care. In the parents’ view no reasonable adult in a position of trust could have possibly concluded that a child with vaginal injuries, including heavy bleeding and tears, should be placed back and educated alongside the abuser, and that parents or Local Safeguarding should not be informed and that there was no need for a meaningful risk assessment. There are also now serious questions to be asked of Ofsted who evidently and plainly Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 failed when inspecting this school to ascertain or uncover the systemic safeguarding failures exposed in the Tribunal decision, especially as disabled pupils, who may need to reside at school due to the lack of suitable provision locally to meet their identified special educational needs, are particularly vulnerable to possible sexual harm and abuse from peers or adults, as noted by the Department for Education and the Department of Health. Ofsted failed to ascertain that instead of proper incident reports being made as required, House Parents merely recorded events in diaries, which were not part of the formal reporting system or school records. We have only seen through the Tribunal process’ partial disclosure of one House Parent’s diary for a six month period, the contents of which are highly concerning regarding incidents – there are numerous other House Parent The Secretary of State for Education needs to also investigate this failure, especially as other vulnerable young people have been engaging in sexual intercourse within a residential special school setting, which staff at the school was fully aware of. The Secretary of State also needs to urgently consider the school’s registration status and future, but in the interim in my view he must suspend the school’s registration forthwith until it is evident that pupils’ safety is secured. It is not good enough merely to have good policies in place, but instead to ensure those policies are being implemented throughout The full extent of Miss C’s experiences, poor practices and the systemic failures, have only just emerged through the current legal processes Miss C’s parents have undertaken on their daughter’s behalf. Miss C’s parents have shown, in my view, enormous courage and dignity during what has been a distressing process to obtain the truth, so they can eventually achieve justice for their disabled daughter and for other children like her. They also hope, by publishing the decision, that other victims of sexual abuse and/or their parents which has occurred in schools, including at Stanbridge Earls School, have the Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 Fortunately, Miss C is now settled and safe in a special school for pupils with autism, but the harm caused to her has had a serious impact on her wellbeing and mental health, which requires treatment. However, her parents remain resolute for lessons to be learnt by all agencies involved in safeguarding disabled pupils. They wish to ensure other parents and their vulnerable children do not have to endure the same distress they and our client have suffered as a consequence of the failures of adults at a residential special school to meaningfully safeguard its pupil(s). SEN Legal will continue to support our client Miss C and her parents to achieve that end and to bring those who seem to have failed to suitably safeguard Miss C to account through relevant Court processes. In the interim, this decision, in my view, raises serious issues for the adequacy of Hampshire Police investigation, and its duty to safeguard pupils at the school and for the Crown Prosecution Service regarding the weight they placed on school staff’s credibility and evidence, which has been shown to be wanting. The fact the CPS cannot even get Miss C’s age right in its decision-making process is deeply concerning. We also expect Hampshire County Council to now be taking urgent steps regarding the safeguarding of all pupils placed at the school, in light of what has now emerged, and that other placing authorities also urgently review the pupils’ welfare that they are responsible for, who are currently placed at the school.” Parents comment:-
“We would like to thank the Tribunal for its decision which we hope assists other vulnerable victims of sexual abuse regardless of gender or disability. Stanbridge Earls School throughout this traumatic process has actively described us as “vindictive” as its justification to the claims we made of disability discrimination. That could not be further from the truth especially given the Tribunal praised us for ‘the dignified manner in which we had conducted ourselves in such harrowing circumstances’. Our sole aim as the Tribunal recognised throughout this process has been to try to Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 ascertain what happened to our vulnerable daughter, as any reasonable parents would do and what steps were taken in light of her disability. We seek to hold those professionals, who enabled her sustained abuse who failed to protect her, and discriminated against her, accountable for their misconduct and lack of appropriate care. The catalogue of errors, the systemic failures, and the fact that our daughter was not the only vulnerable under-age pupil subject to sexual contact and sexual intercourse was, and is, shocking to us. It is still the case those other pupils’ parents, their local authorities, Hampshire County Council and Ofsted have not been informed of such events, which are recorded in House Parents’ diaries, rather than properly recorded in school files, as school policy plainly requires. Evidence of issues around drugs and drug taking also emerged. We are dismayed to discover our daughter made numerous threats of suicide which were not acted upon, despite this school having already gone through the tragic death of another pupil at the school, who committed suicide in the school’s boarding house. We were truly astounded to hear evidence from the head teacher, Mr Peter Trythall, who maintained throughout his evidence that non-consensual sex was not rape, and that when allegedly told of that rape, went on holiday to Cornwall, leaving the matter to be dealt with by a junior member of staff. The fact Mrs Callender advised Safeguarding agencies and the Tribunal that she did not understand why she needed to make a referral of an allegation of rape to agencies, and only did so because we insisted, is a staggering We were also stunned that when challenged regarding the disgusting abusive text messages sent to our daughter by male peers, that were so lewd the school’s own barrister refused to read them out in the Hearing, for Mr Trythall to state this was common practice and behaviour, not only with all pupils attending Stanbridge Earls School, but for all children and young people across this country, to engage in. We roundly reject his position, as do our witnesses, who all have children, and would be as horrified as we would be if their sons sent such messages to female pupils, as thankfully did the Tribunal. It remains our view, a view we expressed to the school, that staff enabled a predatory ring Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 to develop among a group of male pupils, who saw the abuse and grooming of female pupils as some form of rites of passage, the abuse which staff seemed to be fully aware of, but took no action to stop or follow any recognised procedures. On the 2nd January 2013, Lady Justice Butler Sloss told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, that the act of sexual intercourse by children under the age of sixteen years is a criminal offence and that children needed to be treated as victims if it occurred. We could not agree more with her wise comments. Instead our daughter was punished, castigated, and discriminated against when she was a victim. The male peers responsible were enabled to remain at the school without any formal written risk assessments or consideration that they We were in a fortunate position to have been able to fund this claim, with our legal fees amounting to nearly £150,000. We did so to expose the truth; the truth is worse than we could have even possibly imagined. We hope that other pupils and parents whose children have suffered like our daughter find the courage to now step forward. What is clear to us is that the growing trend by young males to sexually abuse, groom and bully females needs We also wanted to extend our genuine condolences to the family of 13 year old Chevonea Kendall-Bryan whose tragic death appear to relate to the sexual abuse and bullying of her by male peers and the subsequent failure of professionals to act including school staff, seems to replicate our own daughter’s suffering, Chevonea’s shocking death and the reasons behind it have been laid bare before the Coroner’s Court and in the media. We may come from a very different social and family background, but we wanted Chevonea’s mother to know that her daughter’s death has not passed us by. Accordingly, we hope the Secretary of State will also consider the contributory factors that led to Chevonea’s tragic death, when considering the findings of this Tribunal decision, so we can as a society take urgent steps to end the sexual abuse of our vulnerable female pupils by their predatory male peers in our schools and the failure of staff to act, understand, or take the matter Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 In the interim we immediately call on Mr Peter Trythall, Mrs Francis Callender and Mrs Melanie Bavington to resign forthwith on the basis of the Tribunal decision. Mr Bailey and Mrs Bailey have, we understand, left the employment of Stanbridge Earls School. In the interim, we assume the Board of Governors will be commencing disciplinary procedures against staff for their failures, which led to our daughter’s sexual abuse. We assume this will also consider the conduct and involvement of Mrs Sybil Warner, Governor with Responsibility for Safeguarding, given Mr Trythall gave direct verbal evidence that she had been notified of the abuse our daughter suffered. Finally we would like to thank Mr Stephen Bradshaw, Ms Julie Maynard, Mr John Friel and Ms Melinda Nettleton for their support on our journey to obtain the truth for our daughter, who has suffered a great deal of harm, because those who had a professional duty of care to safeguard her failed in that duty and failed miserably which was beyond the Tribunal’s Editorial Notes:
Miss C and her parents, for legal reasons, must not be identified, but reside in Essex.
There are no other legal restrictions in place – applications for non-disclosure or naming of the school by Stanbridge Earls School were refused by the Tribunal. The school has been named in other proceedings. The Tribunal indeed stated their decision to be disclosed was Civil proceedings are currently before HMCTS (Her Majesty’s Court and Tribunal Service) for Gender Discrimination against Stanbridge Earls School in which to school is openly Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95 Essex County Council Head of Safeguarding is currently reviewing relevant evidence regarding Miss C’s sexual abuse and alleged failure to safeguard. The Tribunal seek for the Secretary of State to review the school’s registration. Hampshire County Council is requested to review the safety of pupils at the school. Ofsted in light of this ruling may wish to reconsider its inspection findings. All contact regarding this Press Release should be made directly to: Director - Melinda Nettleton LLB Solicitor Mother of a child with Special Educational Needs Regulated by The Law Society Ref: 117964 Member of ELAS (Educational Law Association) Trustee of SOS!SEN Registered in England Nº 04697968 VAT Reg Nº 781 7196 95

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