EHCP help needed please.

[shoeshinegirl]

School are applying for a EHCP for DS again. LA gave DS a NIL this time last year. Since then he has made a very small amount of progress in all area, but that is with lots of support.
When filling in the paperwork should the school put his supported levels? Or should DS do the assessments unsupported?
Thanks for any advice.

Don't the school know? I would have thought they just have to give as much up to date evidence as possible.

Last time the school applied they put DS's supported levels. Which are a lot higher than his unsupported levels.
SENCO is new and this will be the first EHCP she has applied for. We had a meeting with caseworker from SEN team before school broke up for Easter. She told SENCO to put unsupported levels.
So I was wondering if this is what should have happened in the first place.
Hoping someone would know on here.

It should always be the levels that the child has achieved independently.

Thank you fairgame.
It does make sense, and I have said more then once DS wouldn't be able to achieve the same levels independently. But the school have always used the supported levels.
So DS is just achieving Level 1c with lots of support. He is 10 and in year 5 so this I believe is really low.

It is quite low they should be on lvls 4/5 in year 5 (ds is in y5). It is hard sometimes for school to decipher the child's levels when they have a lot of input. DS had full time 1:1 in ms and his LSA used to do most of his work but the teachers were still able to figure out what he could achieve on his own. The LSA used to clearly mark which work she had done and write on it how much help he had been given to achieve the work. It just takes a bit of effort on the teachers part. But reporting supported levels is not giving a true indication of where your son is.

I agree - unsupported levels only, or both supported and unsupported, but definitely NOT supported only.

Thank you.
I can't help but be a bit angry that this has only just been picked up. This will be the third time, the school have applied for an statement/EHCP. (Last time DS was given a NIL.)
Each time they have only put the supported levels. I even asked how they were getting those levels, because they was no way DS was achieving them. School kept telling me those were the levels DS was getting when assessed.But have only just said he was having lots of support to get those levels.
I'm so angry at myself for not realising, and feel the school have misled me.

We all feel angry when we have been tricked, both at ourselves and at the person doing the tricking.
But don't be hard on yourself, you asked and were misled. That is their fault not yours.

The mystery is how these people live with themselves