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08.07 Is Speech and Language Therapy SEP?

Noddy 'No-nonsense' Guide to SEN law EHCP section F
Noddy No-nonsense Guide

Noddy No-nonsense Guide
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.  

    As for the position under EA1996 (More: Why does the Noddy Guide refer to the EA1996 and cases related to it when SEN law is now in CFA2014?), speech therapy should be treated as educational (i.e. Part 3) unless there are “exceptional reasons for not doing so”: COP1996 #8.49; X&X v Caerphilly BC [2004] EWHC 2140. 

    More: Can health or social care provision also be educational provision?

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