Request for EHCP assessment and Annual Review guidance
Request for EHCP assessment and Annual Review guidance
Read guidance for the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) assessment and Annual Review. If you have any questions after reading this guidance, email: [email protected].
When completing the Request for Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment (RSA), you should work with the child or young person and their family. Please note: save and send as a Word doc where at all possible.
Read more about:
- RSA compliance
- Section 2 – summary of Special Educational Needs
- Section 3 – education and support
- Section 4 – views of the child or young person and family
- Section 5 – outcomes
- Section 6 – additional evidence
RSA compliance
9.14 - In considering whether an Eduction Health and Care (EHC) needs assessment is necessary, the local authority should consider whether there is evidence that despite the (setting) having taken relevant and purposeful action to identify, assess and meet the special educational needs of the child or young person, the child or young person has not made expected progress.
To inform their decision the local authority will need to take into account a wide range of:
- evidence, and should pay particular attention to:
- evidence of academic attainment (or developmental milestones in younger children) and rate of progress
- information about the nature, extent and context of the Special Education Needs (SEN)
- evidence of the action already being taken by the (setting) to meet SEN
- evidence that where progress has been made, it has only been as the result of much
- additional intervention and support over and above that which is usually provided
- evidence of physical, emotional and social development and health needs, drawing on relevant evidence from clinicians and other health professionals and what has been done to meet these by other agencies
Section 2 – summary of Special Educational Needs
Strengths and achievements – this section is just as important as describing the aspects the child or young person finds challenging. Try to include as many different areas of their life where they are enjoying and achieving.
Description of need has a separate space for each area of need as described in the Code of Practice. If the child or young person has no SEN in one area then make this clear within the space rather than leaving it blank.
For each area, consider the impact of these difficulties on the CYPs learning.
Do not ‘copy and paste’ from the child or young person banding documents.
Do not describe needs using the ‘bands’ for example, Billy is Band 4 for Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties (SEMH).
Section 3 – education and support
This is the section to describe all the support which has been in place as part of an ‘assess, plan, do, review’ cycle. It is important this section outlines provision over time and clearly shows what has worked well; what impact has this made.
Additional school provision – use this section to describe in detail what the school has done to support the child or young person. Include:
- any specific interventions
- strategies implemented
- changes to curriculum offer or the environment
- resources used
- additional support
- staff training
Include the impact of these measures. Adding provision maps as part of the appendices may support this section.
Attainment – end of previous phase attainment must be included (for example, include Year 6 outcomes if at secondary school or GCSE results if post-16).
Section 4 – views of the child or young person and family
This section must be given suitable time to complete to ensure the voice is captured and provides a balanced request.
The child or young person's voice can be completed in any way in which they wish it to be. For advice about completing the pupil voice see the Voice of the child toolkit - Derby City Council.
Parent carers should be supported where necessary to ensure they full contribute to the request.
Section 5 – outcomes
Use the table to complete an outcome for each of the areas in the outcomes framework. The 7 outcomes will mean different things for every child. For a list of exemplar descriptors for each outcome, read the Outcomes Framework.
Section 6 – additional evidence
Use this final box to add in any additional information to be considered.
To ensure every attachment is received, please list all documents attached as supporting evidence.