SEND Advocacy Blog

Informed opinion on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Law, Policy and Practice and related areas

Transport Part 2 - Post 16

This blog post looks at transport for Young People at Post 16 placements. Please see here for a post dealing with transport for children...

Transport Part 1 - Children

Home to School transport is a perennial problem for parents and carers of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities...

What is an EHCNA? - Part 2

This is the second of a two-part Blog post on the Education Health and Care Needs Assessment ("EHCNA") process and looks at what happens...

What is an EHCNA? - Part 1

EHCNA stands for Education Health and Care Needs Assessment. It is the first stage in the process of obtaining an Education Health and...

What Is an Annual Review?

An Annual Review, as the name suggests, is a yearly review of a child or young person’s Education and Health Care Plan (“EHC Plan”) and...

What Is A Phase Transfer?

Phase Transfers refer to the times at which a child or young person moves between phases of education[1]. There are six in total,...

Choosing A School: Part 1

This is a two-part blog post looking at choosing a school with an Education and Health Care Plan ("EHC Plan"). This post considers the...

Personal Budgets and Direct Payments

When a child or young person is issued with an Education and Health Care Plan (EHC Plan) the local authority is legally required to...

Why Specify and Quantify?

One of the more enduring #SENDMyths concerns the degree to which provision in section F of an Education and Health Care Plan (EHC Plan)...