Taking children out of school during term time

I will be taking my children out of school next month for our family holiday. 2 of my children have additional needs, one is diagnosed combined adhd and one awaiting assessment for adhd/asd. Neither of them cope well in overcrowded situations with one having social anxiety and the other being liable to wonder off etc. this is the main reason for going out of term time so it will not be as busy. Is there anything I can do in order to not receive an fine from my local authorities for doing this.

If a decision is made to electively home educate a child who previously had a school-based IDP, does the school-based IDP automatically cease upon deregistration from the school? Is the LA then required to determine whether it will maintain the IDP?

If a request is made for the LA to review and revise a school-based IDP with the view it becomes an LA-maintained IDP, and the LA panel decides that additional evidence and assessments from the school are needed before reaching a decision, what happens if the child is removed from the school roll during this process? Does the panel need to reconsider the request and decide whether to maintain the IDP, given that there is no longer a school to provide the requested evidence or implement recommendations? Or should a new request be made for the LA to determine whether the child has ALN?

If we register our child through the standard secondary school admission process, will their EHCP automatically cease?

Our adopted, Year 6, daughter has an EHCP with VI as the main need. We chose a secondary school for her with a specialist VI unit, in a different county. They can definitely meet needs but have yet to agree to the placement. If we went through the standard admissions, she would be given a place in our chosen school as she is a previously looked-after child. But we have been told by our Local Authority that if we do that, the EHCP will cease. Is that correct, would that be a legal move?

Denied authorised absence, does it fall under equality act

My daughter has an EHCP detailing she is dyslexic & had ADHD. I take her to a registered charity specialising in teaching kids with dyslexia that I pay privately for. Last year the school authorised this under code b and now they are refusing to. Is there anything I can do or would this come under the equality act to make reasonable adjustments?

Secondary school naming with appeal pending - Y5 transition timing

I have an appeal pending with a hearing in the first months of next year. We've just had our annual review and the school amended the EHCP but noted that there's an appeal ongoing.
They're saying we'll need another annual review after the appeal to name the secondary school. My child is in Y5, and they've warned the secondary could refuse him if they see the EHCP post-appeal.
I've heard it's better to request secondary placement earlier rather than waiting until June 2026. The secondary school SENCO confirmed they usually get requests much earlier than June.
Questions:

Should I request secondary placement now or wait until after the tribunal?
Can the LA delay naming a secondary school until the appeal's resolved?
Could requesting now affect my appeal?

Thanks for any advice!

ETW appeal – placement named in the IDP – How to write a case statement and evidence that the environment is not suitable for the child.

A child in Wales with ALN, has been permanently excluded twice from mainstream secondary schools and now has a LA-maintained IDP. The parent wants to appeal the school named in the IDP. The concern is not about the school’s ability to deliver the ALP, but that the environment is unsuitable due to the child’s extreme anxiety and past negative experiences with pupils who attend the school named. The child refuses to visit the school or even enter certain towns where the child may see these individuals, and the parent fears this will prevent the child from accessing education and may pose a safety risk.

How can the parent reflect this clearly in their case statement, and what evidence can they provide to support the appeal, especially given that the child will not visit the school and this is purely based on the child's feelings?

If a tribunal is open for an ehcp can I still carry out a phased transfer review of the ehcp

Parent went to tribunal over an EHC and a draft amended EHC is still being argued over. LA have asked for the original final EHC to be reviewed as per Phased transfer regulations. Mum has said it is not legal to do so if it is at tribunal

Can I put my child in a private performing arts school (and find privately)for a foundation year and keep the EHCP to resume a college diploma after that year?

Daughter has an EHCP and attends a speech and language specialist school and college currently in year 11. The college provision (for the following year onwards) is a poor fit for her and her ambition so I’m looking at alternative performing arts college courses. A private school near me offers an intensive one year foundation course in musical theatre and I think this would really benefit her. Will I lose the EHCP or is there a way we could retain it and continue using the EHCP to provide her with a college place after that one year?

Do i have to submit an annual review final EHCP to the tribunal during an appeals process?

We are currently midway through an appeals process with the LA over the addition of specialist provision to my child's EHCP. We are currently on working document version 5, and there have been numerous changes and additions to sections B & F agreed by both parties; however, the appeal continues as the LA will still not put the specialist provision into the EHCP.

The problem is we have also just had an annual review. The LA issued a draft, and then a final plan, with none of the changes currently agreed upon in the appeal. They changed a lot of section A, but otherwise, the final annual review EHCP is the same as the EHCP we are appealing from the previous year (i.e. the same as working document version 1).

Do I need to submit this new Final Annual Review EHCP to the tribunal (using the Send7 form as the IPSE website suggests), or can I just ignore it and carry on discussing the Working Document version 5 with the LA, as that is the most relevant document with all the changes agreed so far?

If the annual review final EHCP is included, it would be like taking the Working Document back to revision 1 and starting again, but I’m scared that once the appeal is finally done, they will use this new annual review final EHCP to overwrite my appealed EHCP and remove the provision I have spent a year trying to add. All the information on the internet only seems relevant if you want to add the annual review EHCP to the appeal, but in this case, I don’t. I just don’t want to give the LA another weapon against us.

Thank you for any help you can give.