Ensuring your child’s educational, health and care needs are met is vitally important, but it can be a challenge. This is especially true when local authorities (LAs) fail to meet statutory deadlines or don’t deliver the Special Educational Provision (SEP) identified in a child’s or young person’s Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). Imelda Brennan,…
Who can request an Education, Health and Care needs assessment? The child’s parent; The young person over the age of 16 but under the age of 25; and A person acting on behalf of a school or post-16 institution. Contact us At Tayntons we can advise you on the best course of action if you…
Can the child or young person start the placement agreed by the First-tier Tribunal or do they have to wait until they receive the decision of the Upper Tribunal? The LA should comply with a decision of the SEND Tribunal within certain timescales. Where the Tribunal has ordered the LA to amend a child’s EHC…
Right support, right place, right time The Department for Education in England published its plans in a Green Paper having carried out a review of the current SEND system and alternative provision. The SEND review was launched because the Government recognised growing frustration about the existing SEND system and to better understand children and…
When a child or young person with an EHC Plan intends to move to another local authority the child’s parent or the young person should inform their existing LA of the intended move and will also need to carry out research and visits to schools that may be able to meet the child or young…
The assessment must cover all the relevant education, health, and care needs of the child or young person. Where a LA undertakes an EHC needs assessment, it must seek the following advice and information on the needs of the child or young person, what provision may be required and the outcomes that are intended to…
The SEND Code of Practice: 0 – 25 years states that advice prepared should be clear, accessible and specific. Experts should provide advice about outcomes which are relevant for the child or young person’s age and phase of education and strategies to achieve them. The LA may provide guidance for experts as to how they…
A LA can cease to maintain an EHC Plan only if it decides that it is no longer necessary for the plan to be maintained or if the LA is no longer responsible for the child or young person e.g. where the young person moves to higher education. The LA may determine that it is…
Where an appeal concerns a child under the age of 16 the appeal is brought by the child’s parents or person with parental responsibility and they will either self–fund bringing the appeal or may qualify for legal help (https://www.gov.uk/check-legal-aid) if the case satisfies the Legal Aid Agency’s merits test and they are financially eligible. Once…
There isn’t a specific age limit on when a child/young person can be issued with an EHC Plan. Children aged under two are likely to need special educational provision in accordance with an EHC plan where they have particularly complex needs affecting learning, development and health and require a high level of special educational provision…
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