The Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) can only come to an end when either or both of the following apply: It is no longer necessary. The local authority is no longer responsible for your child or young person (CYP). ...
Parents are increasingly concerned about the new system of mediation that has been introduced by the Children and Families Act 2014. The Children and Families Act 2014 requires that before a parent, or young person, appeals to the Special...
The purpose of the annual review process is to consider the special educational needs (SEN) support that has been in place for the last 12 months and to determine whether any adjustments to an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) are necessary. ...
We have been contacted by a number of parents who are unhappy with the school named in their child’s Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). As the ‘old’ regime of Statement of Special Educational Needs (SSEN) is replaced with EHCPs this...
The answer in short is, yes, an expert, or anyone else who has knowledge of the issues, can be required to attend the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunal to give evidence. To request the attendance of an expert, either the...
When carrying out an Education, Health and Care (EHC) needs assessment that will lead to an EHC plan the law is clear that the final plan must be issued within 20 weeks of the initial request. The law states in the Special Educational...
I have recently received a Draft Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) which is as vague in Section F as we have all come to expect from the ‘old’ Part 3 of a Statement of Special Educational Needs. Multiple references to...
According to Cancer Research UK, an average of 1,574 children were diagnosed with cancer each year between 2009-2011. Naturally the focus of parents will be health, but additional education support is also available. Cancer and special...
A new case, Essex County Council v TB , provides further clarification about what the Tribunal will look at when you are seeking an independent school in your child’s Statement or EHCP. The starting point is the law of s9 Education...
On 29 October 2014 the Court of Appeal gave a decision in what started life as a Judicial Review application. The case is R(ER) v Local Government Ombudsman and Hillingdon LB. The very clearly written judgement can be found here . Who is this...
Research has shown that children with disabilities are more likely to be subject to bullying with substantially higher levels of constant and occasional bullying than peers without any form of disability or special educational needs. The...
Yesterday, 15 October, the Department for Education (DfE), along with the Office for National Statistics, published its autumn report concerning the rates of attendance at School for 2013-2014. The report makes for interesting and somewhat...
If you are the parent of a child at an academy and you want to access your child’s educational records you should first check whether the information required is already in the public domain. Unless mutually agreed otherwise, academies have to send...
