Education Health and Care Plans

We are excited to launch new documentation for our Education, Health and Care assessment and review processes. We have collaborated with all partners to evaluate where the elements and experiences within these processes needed to improve, and with the excellent engagement of our partners, have coproduced both assessment, review and EHCP template documents to deliver improved quality across all aspects.

Parent carers, children and young people, school and educational setting staff, SEND professionals, colleagues from health and social care, the Virtual School, and the Careers Service, over 70 partners, have all been involved in not only discussing what needs to change but also directly working together to draft, pilot and agree the new documentation for improving the quality of our EHCPs. During this process, there has been a collaborative establishment of high standards that we expect across the partnership and each partner has been able to review their part to play in this. We are excited to launch and embed these new documents: but we must remember it is about so much more than new documents. These improvements will, ultimately, directly impact the experience and educational success of our children and young people.

Over the next six months, we will support our parent carers, educational settings, SEND professionals and other partners to understand and embed these new documents and expectations, and will provide opportunities for training, weekly drop-ins for guidance on document completion for SENCos, query checks and information sharing to ensure all partners are clear and able to move forward with improved quality. We will use a grace period up to the end of the Spring term, 11th April 2025, after which all new documents will be fully embedded, and all current documents will be withdrawn.