Following consultation with a variety of education settings, a revised version of the EHCP Review Report was made available, alongside guidance notes for use by all education settings last term.
Over the last summer term there was a transition to use the new template, and there is now an expectation that the new template is consistently used by education settings to complete Review reports.
Please note that a central mailbox for EHCP Review reports and documentation to be submitted to the local authority by education settings has been created. Review reports should now be sent to [email protected]
Following coproduction, new versions of the Family/ Carers views form (previously Family Views Form) and Child/ Young Person Views Cover Sheet (previously Child and Young Person Views forms) for the Education, Health and Care Plan Review process will be made available below and the Suffolk Local Offer website from Monday 25th November.
Key changes to be aware of:
- Changes have been made to the questions asked within the forms to improve how we gather and capture views of children, young people, and parents and carers to input to the review of an Education, Health and Care Plan.
- The new forms include additional information about how the completed views forms are part of the review process.
- The forms include a section to gather views on whether the support provided by the EHCP is helping the child/ young person make progress, to inform answers to this question within the new EHCP review report launched earlier this year.
- The child and young person views forms are to be replaced by the new Child and Young Person Views Cover Sheet. The new cover sheet includes:
- Various prompts to gather views on what is working well, what is not working so well, what is important to children and young people, and what will help them to achieve their hopes and dreams.
- A resource bank, providing a range of resources to be used to capture views, in a format that best suits the child/ young person.
EHC plans should be used to actively monitor children and young people’s progress towards their outcomes and longer term aspirations. They must be reviewed by the local authority as a minimum every 12 months.
The first review must be held within 12 months of the date when the EHC plan was issued, and then within 12 months of any previous review, and the local authority’s decision following the review meeting must be notified to the child’s parent or the young person within four weeks of the review meeting (and within 12 months of the date of issue of the EHC plan or previous review).
Please bear in mind that an Annual Review is not just the meeting; it refers to the whole process and is only complete once the Local Authority have issued it’s decision following the meeting, and so enough time must be allowed in your planning to ensure this can occur within the statutory timescales.
Annual Review Documentation
We have developed EHCP Annual Review Training and Guidance for all education settings and colleagues working across the SEND system to support children and young people (CYP) with SEND.
Please follow this link to the SCC Annual Review Training and Guide.