Annual review of the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)

Information gathering

Your child’s education setting will arrange the review meeting. It will usually be held at the setting. You will be invited, along with your childs teacher and any other professionals who work with your child. You can also choose to bring a friend, adviser, relative or anyone else to support you.

Before the meeting the education setting will ask for written reports from you and the other professionals involved with your child. You and the professionals will be invited to submit your contributions via the EHC Hub. The setting will use these reports and the meeting itself to complete the annual review report on the EHC Hub.

The SENCo will then send all written contributions to everyone involved in the annual review at least two weeks before the meeting.

The review meeting

Everyone at the meeting will be able to give their views on the child's progress. New outcomes or steps towards those outcomes may be added. If there have been significant changes to the child's needs then new or different provision may be requested. It might be that nothing needs to change at all.

The education setting will write all this into a report for us, the local authority.

Year 9 onwards

All reviews taking place from year 9 onward must include preparing for adulthood. This should include employment, independent living, community inclusion and health. This transition planning must be built into the EHCP. Where relevant, it should include planning for young people moving from children’s to adult care and health services. It is particularly important to record the views, wishes and feelings of the young person.

The education setting should consider inviting representatives of post-16 institutions. This is especially important where the young person wants to attend a particular institution. The review meeting should focus on options and choices for the next phase of education.

The local authority’s review of the EHCP

The education setting will submit a report on the annual review in the EHC Hub within two weeks of the meeting.

We will then have a further two weeks to decide whether we should make any changes to your child’s EHCP. We will be considering whether to:

• maintain the EHCP without changes
• amend the EHCP
• stop the EHCP

This is called a revised final EHCP. We will explain our reasons for any decisions we make and ask you for your views. If you disagree with the decisions, you can follow the next steps for continuing to work with us to resolve your concerns.

Ending an EHCP

An EHCP is not for life. An EHCP can end when a child or young person no longer has needs that must be recorded in an EHCP. The child or young person may still have special educational needs, but support can continue from the ordinarily available provision.