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New Education Health and Care Plan Referral Process

We have redesigned our Education Health and Care Plan process in order to make it smoother and reduce duplication for schools. This should speed up the process and enable us to meet the 20-week statutory deadline in most cases. The new process involves:

 

  • Schools supporting children and families to tell their stories and share their aspirations as part of the referral process, which will enable EHCPs to be more personalised.
  • The EHCP using more of the evidence from the application, thus reducing the advice schools need to provide.
  • A planning meeting after the EHCP has been finalised with all the professionals to provide school with the support and advice they need to implement the plan.

We are now working with parents to redesign the EHCP template to make it a more user-friendly document.  We are planning to launch this at the start of the new school year. This term marks the end of the phasing out period for the old form and all applications must now be sent on the new form.  The new form was re-sent out to all SENCOs on Monday 13 May 2019 and should be used for all future requests.  SENCos should contact the SEND team for further advice and support.

 

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