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The EHCP and The Person Centred Connection

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How do pupils with Education, Health and Care Plans experience life in mainstream schools? - The Chartered College of Teaching

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Little is known about the educational experiences of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) over time, and how inclusive these experiences are relative to those without SEND. This matters, because the more we know we about how pupils' ...

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An education, health and care ( EHC) plan is for children and young people aged up to 25 who need more support than is available through special educational needs support.

EHC plans identify educational, health and social needs and set out the additional support to meet those needs.

Requesting an EHC assessment

You can ask your local authority to carry out an assessment if you think your child needs an EHC plan.

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 decide to carry out an assessment you may be asked for:

any reports from your child's school, nursery or childminder

doctors' assessments of your child

a letter from you about your child's needs

The local authority will tell you within 16 weeks whether an EHC plan is going to be made for your child.

Creating an EHC plan

1. Your local authority will create a draft EHC plan and send you a copy.

2. 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.

3. Your local authority has 20 weeks from the date they receive the request for the assessment to give you the final EHC plan.

Disagreeing with a decision

You can challenge your local authority about:

their decision to not carry out an assessment

their decision to not create an EHC plan

the special educational support in the EHC plan

the school named in the EHC plan

If you cannot resolve the problem with your local authority, you can appeal to the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunal.

Personal budgets

You may be able to get a personal budget for your child if they have an EHC plan 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:

direct payments made into your account - you buy and manage services yourself

an arrangement with your local authority or school where they hold the money for you but you still decide how to spend it (sometimes called 'notional arrangements')

third-party arrangements - you choose someone else to manage the money for you

You can have a combination of all 3 options.

Independent support for children of all ages

Independent supporters can help you and your child through the new SEN assessment process, including:

replacing a statement of special educational needs with a new EHC plan

moving a child from a learning difficulty assessment (LDA) to an EHC plan

You can find out how to get local support through:

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Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)

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Children with special educational needs (SEN) can get the help they need to get an education - SEN support, education, health and care plans, SEN before September 2014

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suffolk young people parents advice information

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Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Service or SENDIASS is a confidential and impartial support and advice service for parents, carers, children and young people (up to 25 years) on issues related to Special Educational Needs and disability.

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Amy, a member of Council for Disabled Children's youth advisory group FLARE, has created an incredible resource to support children and young people who have an Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP).

An EHCP has to be reviewed at least every 12 months and you should be given two weeks' notice of the review date. The meeting is usually held at the school or college you attend. However, as a child or young person, you might not know exactly what this meeting is for, who is going to be there or what it even means for you.

Amy has made a leaflet that will help you understand this meeting, what you should do, how you could prepare and where you can find free independent advice and support about it. It's really important that young people understand what these meetings are and how to prepare for them so they can get their thoughts and experiences across. Amy has shared some suggestions on how young people can prepare to share their views for their annual review meeting.

This resource will support you to prepare for the meeting and what to bear in mind during it. It's vital that your views and ambitions are shared in the way you want them to be, so use this resource if you need some help organising all of your thoughts or if you don't really understand what the meeting is for.

A thank you to Amy for creating this resource to support children and young people!

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Amy's Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP) resource

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Amy, a member of Council for Disabled Children's youth advisory group FLARE, has created an incredible resource to support children and young people who have an Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP). An EHCP has to be reviewed at least every 12 months and you should be given two weeks' notice of the review date.