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An Education, Health and Care plan (EHC plan) is a legal document which: · identifies your child's special educational needs. · the additional or specialist provision (support, therapy etc) required to meet their needs. · the outcomes (capabilities, achievements) the provision should help them to achieve.
- The Local Offer
The Local Offer should set out the type of provision the...
- How The System Should Work
In order to get the specialist support required, that is...
- EHC Assessments
What is an EHC Assessment? An EHC Assessment is an...
- The Local Offer
and young person. A good Plan should build on the activities and resources already in place for the child or young person that support their learning and opportunities. As part of the EHC needs assessment, advice must be sought from the childs parents, the child and all partners in education, health and social care.
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- Requesting An EHC Assessment
- Creating An EHC Plan
- Disagreeing with A Decision
- Personal Budgets
- Independent Support For Children of All Ages
You can ask your local authority to carry out an assessment if you think your child needs an EHCplan. A young person can request an assessment themselves if they’re aged 16 to 25. A request can also be made by anyone else who thinks an assessment may be necessary, including doctors, health visitors, teachers, parents and family friends. If they dec...
Your local authority will create a draft EHC plan and send you a copy.You have at least 15 days to comment, including if you want to ask that your child goes to a specialist needs school or specialist college.Your local authority has 20 weeks from the date they receive the request for the assessment to give you the final EHC plan.You can challenge your local authority about: 1. their decision to not carry out an assessment 2. their decision to not create an EHCplan 3. the special educational support in the EHCplan 4. the school named in the EHCplan If you cannot resolve the problem with your local authority, you can appeal to the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SE...
You may be able to get a personal budget for your child if they have an EHCplan or have been told that they need one. It allows you to have a say in how to spend the money on support for your child. There are 3 ways you can use your personal budget. You can have: 1. direct payments made into your account - you buy and manage services yourself 2. an...
Independent supporters can help you and your child through the new SENassessment process, including: 1. replacing a statement of special educational needs with a new EHCplan 2. moving a child from a learning difficulty assessment (LDA) to an EHCplan You can find out how to get local support through: 1. Council for Disabled Children 2. Information, ...
Education, Health and Care plans: Examples of good practice. The first part of this document includes excerpts from real EHC plans that were collected through the local Independent Support network. In the second part there are two EHC plans which draw on real examples but the plans themselves relate to fictional children. We expect these ...
The purpose of this leaflet is to help you understand the. Education, Health and Care Plan assessment process. It has been written by parents of children with special educational needs and the Somerset PYPPS Service. Education, Health and Care Plans are covered in Chapter 9 of the 2014 Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice ...
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This example EHCP was made for Lucy as she prepares to start sixth form and it goes into details about: What really matters to Lucy. What is important for Lucy in relation to her education. What is important to Lucy in relation to her health and wellbeing. What is important to Lucy in relation to her social and community life.
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good quality Education Health and Care (EHC) plans that meet both the letter and the spirit of the Children and Families Act 2014. Writing an EHC plan can be challenging, and each plan will only achieve the job it was intended to do where it reflects in full the particular individual child or young person to whom it relates.
