Don’t let the timetable undermine the process

When you apply for an Education Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHC NA), there is a strict statutory process that applies.

Amanda Sokell 16/01/2023 Amanda Sokell 16/01/2023

Is your school a trusted SatNav?

School advice in relation to Educational Health and Care Needs Assessments (EHCNA) can be a bit like a SatNav. Very often it is OK. It might not be the best route, however, you will generally end up where you need to be eventually.

However, when the SatNav is playing up, the well-meaning bad advice from a school can cost months of inadequate education for a learner.

Hello Hello 30/04/2021 Hello Hello 30/04/2021

Quantitative thresholds are not lawful

Education and Health Care Plans have been with us since 2015. That’s six years, and yet there is still so much misinformation about them. I still, regularly come across schools that don’t fully understand the law.

Hello Hello 03/12/2019 Hello Hello 03/12/2019

Year end celebrations

When life is a challenge, we can often forget to celebrate the little “yay” along the way.

Hello Hello 19/08/2019 Hello Hello 19/08/2019

Out of school?

It’s such a dilemma, isn’t it? On the one hand, you can see the harm that school is doing, and on the other, you feel that if you take them out, it might be worse. Could it be a case of out of sight out of mind?

Hello Hello 17/06/2019 Hello Hello 17/06/2019

Here's to more smiles

Ending the week on a high.

Hello Hello 23/04/2019 Hello Hello 23/04/2019

The Delayed Effect (aka Masking)

Does your child explode when they get home from school, and yet at school they appear to be fine? It could be they are masking…

Hello Hello 07/01/2019 Hello Hello 07/01/2019

Waiting on tenterhooks

Why is today so significant? For one child at least, today is significant because today is the deadline by which the Local Authority (LA) needs to decide whether or not to undertake an assessment for an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP).