Helpful links and definitions (Annual Reviews)

Helpful links

  1. SENDIASS information about Annual Review of an EHC plan
  2. SENDIASS YouTube channel-for videos around EHC and SEND
  3. SEND Code of Practice 2015
  4. Parent Guide to the SEND Code of Practice 2015
  5. Suffolk SENCO Central – including the different Annual Review forms and timescales.
  6. Helen Sanderson website–advice & tools for person-centred practice
  7. Psychology and Therapeutic Services video Creating a One Page Profile
  8. Inclusion Facilitators Free Resources | Suffolk County Council
  9. Preparing for Adulthood person centred planning tools and guides
  10. Suffolk Preparing for Adulthood information (Suffolk Local Offer)
  11. Council for Disabled Children (CDC) guidance around person-centred planning meetings
  12. Mind of My Own
  13. POhWER advocacy services
  14. ‘Involving young people in decision-making’ video (opens in You Tube)
  15. The Council for Disabled Children guide: Step-by-step EHC plans
  16. The Council for Disabled Children guide: Annual Review Factsheet
  17. Inclusive Solutions – explains PATH, a person-centred planning tool
  18. IPSEA – Independent Provider of Special Education Advice
  19. Equality Act guidance for schools 2014
  20. Equality and Human Rights Commission Reasonable Adjustments guidance – (detailed examples and explanations)
  21. DfE Suspensions and permanent exclusion guidance (note the useful annexes)

Definitions

Special educational provision (‘provision’ means support)

Section 21 of the Children and Families Act 2014 defines special educational provision for children over two and young people as:

‘educational or training provision that is additional to, or different from, that made generally for others of the same age’.

Special educational provision for a child aged under two years means educational provision of any kind.

Disability

The definition of disability is set out in Section 6(1) of the Equality Act 2010, which states that a person has a disability if they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.

  • ‘substantial’ is defined as ‘not minor’
  • ‘long term’ is defined as more than 12 months (but these do not have to be consecutive months).
  • ‘Adverse effect’ means a negative effect.

Young People

Section 83 of the Children and Families Act 2014 defines a ‘young person’ as a person who is over compulsory school age but under the age of 25. A child is of compulsory school age until the last Friday of June in the year in which they become 16, as long as their 16th birthday falls before the start of the next school year.

Health care and social care provision/support

Section 21 of the Children and Families Act 2014 defines health care provision as the provision of health care services as part of the comprehensive health service in England continued under section 1(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006.

Social care provision means the provision made by a local authority in the exercise of its social services functions. This does not necessarily mean social work provision. Many children and young people’s social needs will be met by universal services (eg Family Support) which will be outlined in the local offer.
Section 21 (5) of the Children and Families Act 2014 also says:

Health care provision or social care provision which educates or trains a child or young person is to be treated as special educational provision (instead of health care provision or social care provision).

This would then go in section F of an EHC plan.