Please sign this petition to stop Ofsted kicking disabled children out of their care facility, losing jobs for amazing care and specialist education staff, and leaving more disabled children without the education they desperately need.

Purbeck View have looked after my severely autistic son since he was 8yrs old. They have provided him with the complex care support he needs and enabled him to develop and progress in his abilities in ways I never thought possible. The staff are loving and supportive, and have become a second family to him. He is now 11yrs old, and they are doing an amazing job of helping him to manage his behaviours and enjoy his life with fun activities and education.

Since he has been there, our family have had hope for his future, and have been able to enjoy a shared care arrangement, due to the support of Purbeck and the key coping strategies they have taught him. Purbeck has been so amazing that we have relocated our entire family from Devon to be permanently close to him - it has been hard, but now we are settled and his twin brothers are happy in their new school.

Now, Ofsted have jumped in and decided, despite the obvious good work Purbeck do, to try and close the school due to a few things they are not happy with. Purbeck have worked hard to meet Ofsted's requirements, but instead of offering support to the school to meet their requirements, they want to close the school, dismiss the staff and kick a number of disabled children out of the provision, knowing there are little, if any alternatives for these children and their families, right before Christmas.

I am appalled at Ofsted's decision. They are supposed to be there to ensure a good standard of education for children, not force children into a position where they can have no education. If they have standards they feel are not being met in a specialist education facility, where there are few other options, they should provide their own people, at the cost of the provision, to bring the standard up to where they feel it needs it to be. If they cannot do this, it suggests that they are setting expectations too high for a Special educational facility, which understandably needs to operate differently to normal educational facilities.