Tribunal Statement Physio OT hours specified
Hi
A friend said you might be able to help.
We head for our second tribunal to get Physio hours specified in to the statement. We went to tribunal when our daughters first Statement was finalised to try and get specified hours of OT, SALT and Physio. We won this tribunal and had 2 hours of SALT (one AAC and one Feeding), 2 hours of Physio and 2 hours of OT per week, for 48 weeks of the year. 3 years later (after a year of reveiwed draft and finally amended statement) we are finally back to tribunal again asking for Physio and OT hours to be put back in. However this time it seems that the Local Physio is saying that our daughter does not need Physio and that stretches 3 times a week and an hour a day in her stand up frame is enough, whilst the Bobath Centre (where our daughter currently attends weekly for 1.5 hours Physio and 45 mins SALT paid for by the PCT) is saying that she needs at least 1.5 hours per week as well as what the local Physio says.
It now seems and feels that not only are we fighting for hours to be specified but we are fighting for Physio full stop.
Our daughter (who has just turned 7) has quad, dystonic, athetoid CP - non verbal, gastro fed, can not roll completely, sit or walk unaided, however is cognetively vary aware and currently a Tobii P10 eye gaze user shortly moving to the new C12 with C-Eye.
Is there any 'evidence' (papers, journals, books, articles, case law etc etc) that could help us at tribunal to keep Madi's Physio in place and have it specified.
Regards
Sally Haynes
HI, we had this for our physio and we went through the tribunal process. the NHS physio is biased towards the LA and the Bobath centre will be considered as being biased twoards yourselves.
we got an independant private physio to come and see our son as a one off appointment to list his needs and in their opinion how much physio he would require and how often.
in the end we did not need to go to tribunal because the LA had to back down and agree to the evidence provided.
good luck
catherine
Hi - I would get Bobath recommendations in to the Tribunal ESPECIALLY if your PCT is actually paying for them!! Cos that is them basically acknowledging that your local physio does not have enough experience and needs the expertise of Bobath.......
Sorry I don't know about any case law etc - but I would really push the Bobath expertise in this (we have done that before)
Cheers, Jenny (Adam's mum!)