Should my son have a learning support plan?

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My son is 9 and in year 5 and has been significantly behind for all of his school life. I've now told school I've had enough and I'm making an application for EHC assessment. I've asked them for my sons learning support plans but was told he doesn't have any any only has a learner profile. I asked about targets and review and was basically told he doesn't have targets and didn't get a response when asked how his progress is supposed to be tracked. Previously he had an IEP (I think that was in reception). Is this right? Should he have a learning g support plan? How are school meant to monitor, review and track his progress?

Unless, when his IEP was reviewed, it was decided that he had made such progress that he no longer needed to be on a support plan, then yes, he should have a plan, he should have targets, and they should be reviewed.

The plans are called different things in different LAs and even different schools now, as, for some reason when we changed to the 2014 Code of Practice, they decided there was no longer going to be standardised paperwork (which an IEP was under the old CoP) but the school still needs to keep a "record of differentiation" and some kind of support plan with targets which ought to be reviewed regularly --and should be shared with parents-.

Thanks and I thought so. No he has always been significantly behind and at no point as it been decided that he doesn't need additional support.