SEND Advocacy Blog

This is a blog post for parents and carers of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities ("SEND") about learning disability awareness week, what a learning disability is and how SEND Advocacy can help.

This is a blog post on how to appeal the Health and Social Care aspects of Education Health and Care Plans ("EHC Plans").

A blog post for parents and carers on how to appeal the content of an Education Health and Care Plan ("EHC Plan")

A blog post on Judicial Review in the context of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities ("SEND") law.

A blog post about mediation in the context of appeals about EHC Plans in the area of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities ("SEND").

A blog post on Education Health and Care Plans ("EHC Plans") explaining what they are and how they help children with SEND.

For many parents and carers of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (“SEND”) having dedicated 1:1 for their child in...

Once a local authority has issued a Final Education Health and Care Plan (“EHC Plan”) the new setting named at Section I of the EHC Plan...

It is a truth universally acknowledged in the world of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities ("SEND") that behaviour is communication . Regrettably, this truth does not seem to have reached those responsible for devising and implementing school behaviour policies. the Recent years have seen enthusiastic adoption by many schools of a Zero Tolerance approach towards even minor deviations from what are frequently very strict behaviour rules; which run the gamut from bullyi

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

This is Part 1 of a 2-Part series of blog posts on SEN Transport and considers the position for children of compulsory school age. 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 when the local authority agrees to carry one out. Part 1, which looked at requesting an EHCNA can be found here . Once a local authority has agreed to conduct an EHCNA, the steps they must take and the time allowed to complete those steps, are governed by law and set out in the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Regulations 2014 (“ t

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

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...

A blog post on phase transfers for parents and carers of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities ("SEND").

A blog post on choosing a school with an EHC Plan for parents/carers of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities ("SEND")

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

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

The SEND Tribunal Increasingly, parents and carers of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities ("SEND")...

Alternative Provision can include a wide range of activities and does not have to be academic When a child or young person is permanently...