Before we start
You know something at school is harder than it should be. Advocate turns that into a small number of specific things to ask for, the actual words to say, and the right person to say them to — plus a page you can take into the conversation and write on.
Asking for an adjustment is an ordinary thing to do. It is not a favour, not a complaint, and not asking for an advantage.
- It is not legal advice and it does not tell you what anyone is obliged to do. It suggests what is worth asking for.
- It does not diagnose anything, and you do not need a diagnosis, a report or a letter to use it or to ask for help.
- It cannot promise an answer. It does not know your school, and no tool can guarantee a yes.
- It is not a task tool — for the work itself, use Audit and Adjust, Scaffold or Step Through.
Nothing you write here is stored. Each guide is generated and discarded. Please don’t include real names — not yours, not your child’s, and not the school’s.
Who is asking?
This decides who the words are written for — you can only say something out loud if it sounds like you.
What’s hard?
Tick anything that fits. You don’t need to be able to explain why it’s hard — just that it is.
These are separate asks. You don’t have to raise them all at once, or in one conversation. Start with the first one.
🏁 Ready for the conversation
Take the document with you. It has the words to say, a tick box for each ask, and space to write down what was agreed.