Does a new diagnosis mean another re-assessment of EHCP?
Does a new Dx mean another re-assessment of EHCP?
Victoria Dean
22 Mar 2025
Does a new Dx mean another re-assessment of EHCP?
22 Mar 2025
Section F states a safe space for emotional regulation. The school is offering a staff room - is this an appropriate safe space?
22 Mar 2025
What can I do to show a 9 year old has EBSA? I've a letter from teacher re his biting himself.
24 Mar 2025
The family support worker specialises in excluded lads/ gaming addicted lads. A hasn't been excluded. He's not a big gamer.
Do I need to see this individual. My 2 other children have excellent attendance. I feel we're being punished for A's neurodiversity. He has head and facial injuries from the car accident. I'm in a wheelchair. A tried to commit suicide in class and bit himself and threw things. Do I need to force him to attend and fail at another placement? He had been offered a special school place at an autism special school. They won't give a reason as to why he can't attend the special school - always that "Mainstream school of their choice can meet his needs.
24 Mar 2025
Our Educational Psychologist (a 2nd-year trainee) wrote a vague Section F provision with many examples rather than specific, quantified provisions. I have emailed three times requesting that it be made legally compliant, but the response I received stated:
"EP reports are written with the intention of enabling education staff to plan and deliver a personalised curriculum within a school or other educational setting. The additional examples that are included within advice help educators to incorporate recommendations/approaches into their lesson planning without limiting their creativity and flexibility, allowing staff to interpret the essence of the recommendation and plan to best effect."
I assume this aligns with LA policy, but my concern is that the vagueness makes the provision unenforceable. My son has an EOTAS package (recently agreed in final/nothing in place), and the LA is only organising tuition for the core curriculum. This means the examples listed in the EP report linking learning to interest (especially computing, which he accesses privately and consistently) are not included in his provision.
I agree with the essence of what she has written within F but due to the lack of detail I am appealing Sections B and F, and I’m wondering whether I should request the EP as an expert witness to clarify her recommendations—or whether this could backfire if she aligns with the LA's stance.
Child's EHCP allegedly states ethnicity - is this needed for an ehcp in section A?
22 Mar 2025
LA have not given a reason why it's not specialist - they offered a place
12 Mar 2025
We have EOTIS Section F states for tutoring included teaching in core education curriculum. He would be in year 7, my concern here is that it’s limited to maths, English and science. He is pda and we have already identified learning needs to be around his interests the one thing he has always continued to access is computing (working towards the curriculum) and cooking. I put in a PB request for computing but “not reasonable required under section F” I will be appealing but I’m just wondering what core curriculum needs to be reworded to so he has access to the full curriculum. Additional where the EP recommendations that were tailored to my son included the use of examples, the LA have stated these are examples so cooking is mentioned twice under learning provision and again under sensory but it won’t be included as “not reasonably required under section F”
We have an upcoming Annual Review meeting scheduled in the next few days and recently received an email from the SENCo outlining the roles and expectations for the review.
The email states:
"As [my son's] SENCo, I will edit the EHCP after the review and make amendments where necessary."
However, based on what we’ve learned from other parents, it is not advisable to rely on the school to make amendments to our son's EHCP
As I understand it, the SENCo's role is to compile a report for the Local Authority (LA) after the Annual Review, leaving the responsibility of making any amendments to the EHCP to the LA.
Shouldn't it be the LA, rather than the SENCo, making changes to my son's EHCP?
23 Feb 2025
We applied for a specialist school for transition of our daughter to secondary school in September. She has an EHCP with 1:1 in mainstream primary school, but the local secondary school has said they cannot support her needs; we also feel that she would not cope in the large scale setting etc etc. The specialist provision has offered her a place but the local authority has named the mainstream secondary school in the EHCP, hence our appeal. We have requested information, reasons for the decision etc prior to appeal but they would not engage. Now that we are heading towards tribunal they have sent an email asking us for our child's view and if we want to discuss further to come to a resolution. NB. they have only 2 weeks left to submit their evidence pack. This all feels suspicious as we had those discussions in the phase transition meeting with school and the LA, plus all the specialist reports state that our daughter needs to attend a small specialist setting. Not sure to what extent we should reply to this email and engage with the LA now at this stage.