What is the difference between a Personal Budget and Direct Payment? A Personal Budget is an amount of money agreed with the local authority to deliver the education, health and/or social care provision in an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) when the...
Ahead of World Autism Acceptance Month (April 2026), it is a good opportunity to highlight the importance of how a good Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) can really make a difference for a child or young person with autism. What is autism? ...
Evidence from an educational psychologist (EP) is the cornerstone for an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP). Why educational psychologist evidence is essential for an EHCP An educational psychologist's primary role is to help clarify and...
Quite often parents are put off applying for an EHCP following a diagnosis of dyslexia , or a specific learning difficulty, based on the notion that their special educational needs can be provided for under available school SEN budgets. It's...
We often come across situations where schools do not want to be named in an EHCP . Schools can refuse to be named in an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), but only in specific circumstances set out by law. To determine whether a school can refuse...
EHCPs are meant to detail, amongst other things, the special educational provision to be delivered to a child or young person included in Section F. We often see EHCPs that also have reference to funding/bands, and sometimes instead of clear special...
In the Education Team at Boyes Turner, we see a lot of Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) which require the special educational needs (Section B) and special educational provision (Section F) to be updated and improved. Whilst Section F provision is...
A recent Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) decision from 16 September 2024, highlighted key points about home to school transport when the pupil in question has an EHCP and is of compulsory school age, i.e., between five – sixteen years old. ...
As we have reached half term, it is a good opportunity to consider the potential tricky area of special educational provision in school holidays. Specifically, we are looking at such provision within an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). EHCPs include...
Family cases involving children and young people with SEND often feature added complexity, beyond the remit of family courts. Mencap and Public Health England identified 353,000 children as having a learning disability (2016) and with divorce rates sharply...
