“The local authority panel wouldn’t agree to funding for a placement with the type of psychological input to care which my daughter desperately needs – they were offering wholly inadequate alternatives. Belinda helped me assert in very clear term that as they’d not carried out the assessment correctly, they weren’t making a defensible judgement on the suitability of a placement, After correspondence with the authority, its legal department and local councillors, setting out the law, they changed their decision and agreed to the funding. It was wonderful to have this support and I could not have got this result without such expert advice and guidance.” AP, 2017.
