Statutory assessment

If the local authority decides to go ahead and make a statutory assessment, it must ask for the following advice:

• educational advice from your child’s school or nursery
• medical advice from your child’s doctors or other health professionals such as a paediatrician, speech therapist and occupational therapist
• psychological advice from the authority’s own educational psychologist, any health professionals such as a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist
• social services advice where relevant
• your advice
• the advice of anyone else you tell the local authority about who can throw light on your child’s difficulties, for example a family member, health visitor or Sure Start professional
• your child’s views – directly from your child where possible but otherwise through you or your child’s teachers or other professionals