Helpful links
- SENDIASS information about EHC needs assessments and plans
- SENDIASS YouTube channel– for videos around EHC and SEND
- SEND Code of Practice 2015
- Parent Guide to the SEND Code of Practice 2015
- Suffolk EHC needs assessments – Suffolk Local Offer (including link to online portal and advice request forms)
- DfE Guidance Supporting Pupils at School with Medical Conditions 2015
- Medical Conditions and School Partnership website (includes templates for individual healthcare plans for specific conditions
- The Council for Disabled Children ‘Step by step guide to EHC plans’
- Preparing for Adulthood: EHC planning – NDTi
- ‘All about me’ (Microsoft Word template for children and young people)
- Notes for using ‘All About Me’ template (PDF)
- IPSEA– Independent Provider of Special Education Advice
- Equality Act advice for schools 2014
- Equality and Human Rights Commission Reasonable Adjustments guidance (opens PDF) – detailed examples and explanations)
- DfE Exclusions Guidance 2017 (note the useful annexes)
- Council for Disabled Children video ‘The EHC plan and the person centred connection’
- Suffolk Inclusion Facilitator free resources
Resources and approaches to help families participate
- Psychology and Therapeutic Services video Creating a One Page Profile
- ‘Involving young people in decision-making’ video from Vimeo
- POhWER (Suffolk Advocacy Service)
- ‘All about me’ (Microsoft Word template for children and young people)
- Notes for using ‘All About Me’ template(PDF)
- My Views – Suffolk Sendiass website
- Person Centred Reviews – Suffolk Sendiass booklet (PDF)
Key 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.
