EHCP help

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Need advice please, you honestly can’t make this up, my son’s school is terrible. I had an annual review in july for my son, with the school senco, I said all the changes I want made to his ehcp etc she wrote them all down and we went through it all together.
Then a few days later she informed me she was leaving at the end of the year but would make sure the LA got all the paperwork from his annual review, well it’s november and I have never had an outcome from his AR, ive emailed the LA on the 20th of October but they never responded. I called them today and guess what?! they’ve never received ANY of the paperwork! senco has since left and now that’s it! what do i do now? the guy on the phone was suggesting an emergency annual review but that doesn’t seem right given he was due one anyway? case worker never responds to me. Can I go above the LA? is there anyone else to take this further? i’ve found an ehcp means nothing honestly not worth the paper it’s written on.

Did you follow up the verbal conversation with an email?

I still don’t think you would have a problem with an early review if you wanted to go down that route.

@Vikingforexample I have 3 teen DSs with EHCPs (2 with EOTAS/EOTIS/C and 1 in MS) and have supported numerous other parents over the years both informally and I work part-time TTO for an organisation who supports parents with disabled DC. The work isn’t all EHCP stuff, it includes things like benefits, blue badges, DFGs, social care, children’s continuing care funding/adult CHC funding, etc. as well, but EHCP work is part of it.

i’ve already emailed them. the phone call was the follow up due to no response, i mean i can try again

You need to follow up all verbal conversations with emails so you have a paper trail of what was discussed as evidence. Your email prior to your phone call doesn’t/can’t do that.

I think that this wouldn't even be an emergency review. The original annual review process was not complete, because the LA have no record of it. Therefore the LA should accept that the last annual review is significantly overdue and must be held as soon as possible.

The LA can’t pretend the AR process hasn’t started just because they have failed to complete it. Just because the LA has failed to comply with the law with the previous AR, doesn’t mean it isn’t an AR.

i’ve emailed the case worker again so hopefully she responds eventually

i still haven’t heard from the case worker how much longer would people say is reasonable to wait or does this sound normal?

Have you emailed the DCS and MO as well? If not, I would do that now rather than waiting longer. If you have already done that, I would start to look for someone with capacity to write a pre-action letter for you.