08.07 Is Speech and Language Therapy SEP?

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Authors: David Wolfe KC, Leon Glenister
14 Feb 2022

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    Yes, generally so. “Speech and language therapy and other therapy provision can be regarded as either education or health care provision, or both. It could therefore be included in an EHCP as either educational or health provision. However, since communication is so fundamental in education, addressing speech and language impairment should normally be recorded as special educational provision unless there are exceptional reasons for not doing so”: COP2015 #9.74. 

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    08.06 Can HCP (health care provision) or SCP (social care provision) also be SEP?

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