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Voices and Choices
The Welsh Assembly Government and the Children�s Commissioner for Wales think that children with special educational needs should have a right of appeal to the Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales. Children should have this right when their parents decide not to make an appeal themselves.
To see how the rights actually work they are being tested in two areas � Wrexham and Carmarthenshire.
Children and young people living in Carmarthenshire and Wrexham local authority areas have a right to:
- Appeal certain decisions made by their local authority about their special educational needs
- Bring a claim about disability discrimination against schools in Carmarthenshire and Wrexham
Once the test has finished it is expected that children and young people in all areas of Wales will be able to make an appeal and claim.
The appeal and claim rights are identical to those that already exist for parents/carers. This does not affect the parental right to make an appeal and claim. It simply means that children now have the same rights as their parents/carers to make their own appeal and claim.
The law recognises that not all children will feel sufficiently able to make an appeal or claim. In this situation a case friend can act on behalf of a child to make an appeal or claim to us at SENTW.
Information for young people, parents/carers and case friends and can be found in our guidance booklets that can be downloaded by following this link to the Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales website: http://sentw.gov.uk/youngpeople/informationbooklets/?lang=en
