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 embed these new documents, but we must remember that 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.

We have supported our educational settings, SEND professionals and other partners to understand and embed these new documents and expectations, and have provided opportunities for training, weekly drop-ins for guidance on document completion for SENCo’s query checks and information sharing to ensure all partners are clear and able to move forward with improved quality. We have used a grace period of 5 months to allow for the adjustment, and now all previous documents have been withdrawn.