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06.01 Are there any particular rules about how an EHCP should be drafted?

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    Yes. EHCPs should be “clear, concise, understandable and accessible to parents, children, young people, providers and practitioners. They should be written so they can be understood by professionals in any local authority”: COP2015 #9.61.

    They have to be intelligible to people who have to read them and not just to their authors. The parties have to be able to reach a good understanding of what the words mean. It is no good if they are ambiguous: T v Hertfordshire [2003] EWCA Civ 1893.

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