EHC Plan - Delay

[thebird93]

Good morning to you all, I'm hoping I can get some advice from you. My son has autism and has an ehc Plan in place and one to one support at a mainstream infant school. He will be transferring to junior school from this September and the necessary arrangements were made to update the plan and start the transition early to help prepare my son and the school for the move from infants to juniors.

The infant school have always followed by the book, documents completed and sent on time. 8 weeks deadline to complete the plan is today.. I started asking questions to county about this yesterday.. guess what they've done nothing with it and after a few frantic phone calls to the senco at the infants school it transpires its been sitting in 'junk' and hasn't even been allocated. As you can imagine I'm not best pleased, I need this plan in place as I do fear we have a battle ahead of us with the junior school.. I've asked for the head of department for our area to contact me today (in a team meeting at present). I cannot believe the incompetence I'm faced with year dealing with this plan!!

He has always had high needs funding and one-to-one support in place how discussions with the senco at his infant school it would appear the junior school haven't applied.. am i to assume one to one support isn't being offered at all.. scary thought as I doubt he will cope to well with the transition without it.

So my question is.. no ehc Plan (which states one to one support) no high needs funding which would allow for one to one support - so am I within my rights to withhold my son starting school until they pull their finger out?

I'm a bit confused.Your son has an EHCP "and the necessary arrangements were made to update the plan and start the transition early to help prepare my son and the school for the move from infants to juniors."

If the plan says 1:1 support it should carry on at junior school.Presumably you have been liaising with the junior school during transition?

When you say "update the plan " do you mean it was to be amended to put the name of the new school in or other changes to be made too?

I'm with Ellie
If he has an EHC Plan, then it moves with him.
Unless his needs have changed significantly, then the only change would be likely to be the name of the school.
I'm not sure what the '8 week deadline to complete the plan' means, if you have a plan?

Sorry I probably didn't explain too well in amongst the mist of it all earlier this week. The annual review was brought forward a couple of months so the new EHC Plan would be in place before starting junior school. The plan does state 1:1 support throughout various tasks/lessons daily and up until now this has worked well for my son.

Anyway having spent the whole week calling/emailing and kicking butt the local sen authority who had lost the draft sent by the infant school which we reviewed in May .. have surprisingly been very apologetic and helpful. Within 24 hours I had the amended plan back, I then called and went over a few things with them .. making sure no 1:1 support was taken out (they tried to)! Fast forward to Friday and I've had a final version delivered to me.

No the real battle will commence with the junior school.. who apparently do their upmost to not have 1:1's

No the real battle will commence with the junior school.. who apparently do their upmost to not have 1:1's

The EHCP is a legal document and the LA has a duty to ensure everything in it is delivered.

The plan should have been done by 15th February as your child is moving phases, so it doesn't sound as if the infant school was as by the book as it should have been. Bear in mind that the same deadline will apply for transfer to secondary school.