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- A case of Educational Negligence?
- Can The LA Make Amendments To The EHCP Which Differ From The Tribunal Order?
- Can you still appeal Section I if your parental choice is named with conditions?
- How would a tribunal make a judgement as to which reports to consider?
- Is the adopting LA allowed to change section I of the EHCP without our consent?
- Refusal to issue an EHC Plan what can we do?
- Refused an EHCP for college!
- Should the family spend money on a SEND Lawyer?
- The LA has not submitted their evidence to the Tribunal by the due date what can we do?
- The LA has refused to complete an EHCNA claiming his needs can be met via a Health plan, is this correct?
- The LA responsible for an EHCP does not have to be the same local authority responsible for social care
- We are going to tribunal but awaiting a date, we sent our original final plan that has no named placement. What should we do next?
- Where can I get advice on managing my appeal?
- Which case law can I use in my refusal to issue an EHCP appeal?
- Who should we use as an expert witness?
- Applied for Statement, now at Appeal, should it be a Statement or EHC Plan?
- Can an EHC Plan be issued without an Educational Psychology assessment?
- Can funding for Irlens equipment such as glasses be applied for within the EHCP and how?
- Can I apply for an EHCP if I home educate my daughter?
- Can I see the minutes from the EHCP decision panel
- Can my child attend a school outside my local area?
- Can my Home-Ed Child qualify for an EHC Plan?
- Can My LA Refuse To Issue A Personal Budget?
- Can the LA change the name of the placement in Section I of an EHC Plan?
- Can the LA use include my son's savings as an income?
- Can the LA withhold an EHCP until other strategies have been tried?
- Can the local authority change the wording of the provision in an EHCP?
- Can we apply for an EHCP?
- Can we name a school in an EHC Plan that is 2 hours away from our home?
- Confused about the sections in an Education, Health and Care Plan
- Confusion over the school's SEN funding request at our child's review
- How Soon After The Annual Review Meeting Should We Receive A Response From The LA?
- I am not happy with the draft EHC plan, what can I do?
- If my 'Post 19' daughter gets an EHCP will her college place be funded?
- If we move abroad, what happens to my child's EHC Plan?
- Is an EHCP more than a short-term target?
- Is my child with a mental health condition eligible for an EHC Plan?
- Must schools spend £6000 on support before requesting an EHC assessment for a child?
- My daughter has dyslexia, can I apply for an EHCP?
- My daughter's draft EHCP is vague
- Our Case Officer said my son's Asperger syndrome wasn't an SEN!
- Should the LA come to our Annual Review?
- Should the LA specify the needs and provision in an EHC Plan?
- The LA has refused to assess my daughter, what can we do next?
- What are some practical examples of needs for an EHC Plan that cannot be met from normally available school resources?
- What can I do if an EHCP has been in the "draft" stage for over 1 year?
- What do I need to know about the new EHC Plan?
- What does a good description of needs in the 'Independence' section look like?
- What is the defintion of 'Education' used in the Education Health and Care Plan?
- What is the difference between s19 EOTAs and s61 EOTAS in an EHCP?
- When can we apply for a school place?
- Where can I find information about the Personal Budget?
- Who can I ask to check our draft Statement or EHC Plan?
- Who is responsible for implementing the provision in the EHC Plan?
- Academy
- Access to Work
- Annual review
- Armed Forces Covenant
- Care Plan
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
- Children & Families Act 2014
- Children and young people’s secure estate
- Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool (CHAT)
- Compulsory school age
- Disabled Students Allowance (DSA)
- Disagreement resolution
- Early Help Assessment
- Early Support Programme
- Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
- Early years provider
- Education Funding Agency (EFA)
- Education, Health and Care plan (EHC plan)
- Elected members
- First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability)
- Free school
- Further education (FE) college
- Graduated approach
- Health and Wellbeing board
- Healthwatch England
- Healthy Child Programme
- Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO)
- Independent school
- Independent supporter
- Information, Advice and Support Services
- Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
- Local Offer
- Maintained school
- Mediation
- National curriculum
- National Offender Management Service (NOMS)
- NHS Continuing Care
- NHS Continuing Healthcare
- NHS England
- NHS foundation trust
- NHS Mandate
- NHS trust
- Non-maintained special school
- Ofsted
- Parent
- Parent Carer Forum
- Parental responsibility
- Personal Budget
- Personal Education Plan
- Portage
- Pupil Referral Unit (PRU)
- Service Children's Education (SCE)
- Special Educational Needs (SEN)
- Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO)
- Special educational provision
- Special school
- Speech and language therapy
- Virtual School Head (VSH)
- Young person
- Youth Justice Board (YJB)
- Youth Offending Team (YOT)
- ASK IPSEA: My child's OT provision in his plan is being discontinued. What can I do?
- ASK IPSEA: What happens to their support when a disabled child moves to a new area?
- Can a parent request funding to pay for external support?
- Can I buy my daughter the laptop specified in her EHCP, but that hasn’t been provided?
- Can we withdraw the consent when a specialist teacher is specified in Section F of the EHC plan?
- Does a young person need an EHCP to get extra support in an FE college?
- Does the LA have to maintain the provision in the EHCP if parents are home educating?
- How can I ensure my child’s in-school therapy is provided by a professional?
- How can I obtain the appropriate SEND support for my child?
- How can I stop the reduction in my son's Occupational Therapy provision?
- I need help to get the school to enforce a statement
- Is specifying the provision in section F of an EHCP a legal requirement?
- My son's support assistant is untrained!
- Provision hours for 1:1 support
- What happens to the personal budget when a child is excluded?
- What should I do if the school do not provide a graduated approach?
- Who is responsible for implementing the provision in the EHC Plan?
- Who is legally responsible for making sure what is in the EHCP is implemented?
- Who Owns The Equipment Specified In Section F Of The EHCP?
- Whose duty is it to provide the provision in the EHCP?
- Whose responsibility is it to source my daughter's provision within her EHCP?
- A systematic review of the behavioural outcomes following exercise interventions for children and youth with autism spectrum disorder
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for anxiety in youth with an autism spectrum disorder
- Drawing links between the autism cognitive profile and imagination: Executive function and processing bias in imaginative drawings by children with and without autism
- Experiences of diagnosing autism: A survey of professionals in the UK
- Immune mediators in the brain and peripheral tissues in autism spectrum disorder
- Onset of psychiatric disorders in mothers after the birth of a child with autism
- Plugged in: Electronics use in youth and young adults with autism spectrum disorder
- Separating ‘emotion’ from ‘the science’: Exploring the perceived value of information for parents and families of children with autistic spectrum disorder
- Sex differences in pre-diagnosis concerns for children later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
- The effect of ‘Autistic Spectrum Disorder’ labels on the responses of college students towards peers
- The experiences and needs of female adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder
- Theory of mind predicts severity level in autism
- Children With Chronic Conditions: Ideas about Condition Management
- Hypermobility and Musculoskeletal Pain in Adolescents
- Hypermobility: A Cause of Joint Pain in Children and Adolescents
- Ivabradine in the treatment of postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a single center experience
- Joint hypermobility syndrome is a risk factor trait for anxiety disorders: a 15-year follow-up cohort study
- Research: AI, welfare, climate and inequality: What could shape disabled people’s lives in the UK over the next 20 years?
- Care taker blogs in caregiver fabricated illness in a child: a window on the caretaker's thinking?
- Common skin and bleeding disorders that can potentially masquerade as child abuse
- Clinical management of achondroplasia
- Improvement in functioning and psychological distress in adolescents with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome following interdisciplinary treatment
- Accepting independent reports
- Can a Child be Assessed for an EHCP in Anticipation of Needs?
- Can a local authority refuse to consider an independent report?
- Can an EHC Plan be issued without an Educational Psychology assessment?
- Can I request an EHC needs assessment request when my daughter does not attend a school?
- Can I Request And Insist The LA Obtain The OT Assessment?
- Can my 22 year old grandson with autism get an EHCP?
- Can my Local Clinical Commissioning Group Refuse to Accept a Private Diagnosis?
- Do I have let the LA assesses my child during the EHCNA?
- Does the school have to spend £6000 before an EHCNA is requested for a child?
- How can I get a second opinion so my son can be assessed?
- How do I know if we have reasonable support?
- Late EHCP drafts and extensions timescales for amendments
- My Child's Father Is Trying To Block An EP Assessment
- My son's school has turned him down for extra time in exams, what can we do?
- Should I be told about experts observing my child in school?
- Should I request a statutory assessment for my child?
- Should social care assess my daughter as part of the EHC needs assessment?
- Should the Local Authority ensure my daughter's SEND are Holistically Assessed?
- There was no EP assessment during the EHCNA assessment process, what can I do?
- What happens during an EHC needs assessment?
- What happens to assessments during the summer holidays?
- What options do I have following the annual review?
- When applying for an EHCNA can we ask the LA to consider our EP report?
- Who applies for an EHCP if parents live in a different Local Authority to the School ?
- Who is responsible for the EHCP when a child moves from one area to another?
- Are the LA legally allowed to withdraw my son’s place at his current school whilst we are engaged in mediation?
- Are Tribunal placement decisions portable?
- Can an alternative provision be named in an EHC Plan?
- Can I be forced to send my child to a special school?
- Can my child attend a school outside my local area?
- Can The College Force My Son To Attend A Placement Not Named In His EHCP?
- Can The LA Specify When A School Place Will be Available?
- Can the parents challenge the LA to force the school of their choice to take him?
- Can we name a school in an EHC Plan that is 2 hours away from our home?
- Flexi-schooling for SEN children
- Has our daughter been discriminated against by her choice of college?
- How do I move my daughter from a special school to a mainstream school?
- How do I request a change of placement?
- I'm not happy with my son's school
- Is it true that a student with an EHCP can not attend an alternative provision for more hours a week than they are in school?
- LA refusing our placement choice for our clever but challenged son
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