Marion Solomon
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| Local Authority | Caerphilly |
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| Still active | Yes |
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| Experience of HE | No known experience of personally home educating a child. |
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Reviews
| Date submitted: | Mon 8th March 2010 |
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This lady is the lady who in her exact words told me.......
'That people like you and your family who take their children off the cross register, WE WASH OUR HANDS OF!!!' And then I struggled for a year with my children as Marion Solomon would'nt give me any phone numbers/website addresses or off line addresses for any home school support system. |
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| Date submitted: | Wed 3rd March 2010 |
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Her name is Marion Solomon. She is the EHE officer for Caerphilly council
Caerphilly council's website explicitly states that they do not like the law- as there is little they can do if people 'choose' not to allow visits.
I wont allow visits to my children because she is a member of "Inclusion serices" the department who also deal with SEN provision and they engaged in an antagonistic campaign which included threats of telling social services we were abusing the children in order to get me to drop a SENDIST tribunal.I did not - and we won.
However when we withdrew the two younger children from school we were 'doorstepped' by an officer sent by Marion Solomon, she insisted she be allowed entry, her boss said she had to come in and complete a form about the children. I asked her to show me the form and I would complete it/decide whether to allow it to be completed. She informed me that I would not be allowed sight of the form nor the information collected about the children. This is obviously a breach of the data protection act. There then folllowed a series of breaches, including correspondence routinely copied to the head of the primary school that the children had attended, who used to refer us to social services for spurious reasons and eventually was told by the social services to stop as they were not concerned about my children. I also recieved a phone call from my GP demanding that I bring my daughter for a medical examination. She would not give me a medical reason for this but said she wished to discuss my daughters recent casualty admissions. I said I was more than willing to discuss these by phone and then when trying to discuss and obtain the reason for her enquiry she became evasive and started to question me about my family circumstances and included the words "can I ask why you are home educating when you have so much on your plate". I can only assume that Marion Solomon referred the case to the GP. Social services had already stated they were not concerned and presumably they wanted the GP to check my child over for signs of abuse. Caerphilly council also require two sets of visits be carried out, one by either Marion Solomon or one of her colleagues from the education welfare department and also one by ESIS who are their school inspectors and Inset providers. These people arrange 6 monthly visits to the home where the children are tested by their inspector and a report completed. It took repeated letters to both Marion Solomon and ESIS to get them to accept the evidence I wished to provide in writing. From the start, the tone of their letters was aggressive and misleading in terms of the law. I was not offered any alternative to visits and had to refer to case law and Welsh Assembly guidance in repeated letters to both ESIS and Marion solomon reminding them of their responsibilities and powers before they finally conceded that there remit was education and that a report of provision would cover all their responsibilities and remit. |
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