EHCP provision during school closure

[ElectricBlueEyes]

If you have a child with an EHCP, please could you share what provision they're being provided with at home if they're not able to attend school due to a medical condition that puts them at risk from Covid-19.
Just trying to manage my expectations on what's possible.
Thank you!

Our LA isn't making any provision at home for children with EHCPs as far as I'm aware (in a County specific support group) My own daughter is attending school (independent specialist) two days a week.

Thanks hired, so no OT, SaLT, support for home learning at all for children at home?

As things stand at the moment, EHCPs are still legally enforceable so if your child still needs provision to be made, then contact your LA. I think many LAs are using this as an opportunity to do as little as possible for DC with SEND, which is really frustrating.

My DS’s school still has teachers and professionals such as SALT, OT etc on hand for advice and support if needed. I know a lot of schools that are offering no support at all though and LAs generally aren’t stepping up.

School have let me know what it is they do therapy wise with him.

I picked up the writing aids and things they have in school to use at home.

I have also had telephone OT and physio appontments to give me things to do

The OT is sending exercises and has offered to do a video conference and the art therapist has offered to a video conference. I have been impressed with them.

the SaLT sent some family games - called boundary games so they were things like my child describing something and me drawing it and then seeing if it looked like what they had described.

However, these people are employed directly by his special school and not through the LA/other organisations like CAHMS

Thanks all. Unfortunately my child's school are using the 'reasonable endeavours' requirement as an opportunity to set the bar as low as possible, i.e. zero in respect of EHCP provision. It's as if it's all just been wiped out for the foreseeable.
Radio silence from the LA. Can't get through by phone and emails aren't answered.

Specialist school have sent a lovely work pack home and teacher is fab and always at the end of an email even just to chat. She’s been ringing as well.

Mainstream fuck all. We’ve been told we can send her in but her oldest sibling is home so she wouldn’t go. Work wise no differentiation or anything. No information on her therapies. But they’ve always been utterly useless.

DICarter, very similar situation with our mainstream. The problem here is that both parents are working (or attempting to work!) and my daughter has 1:1 TA support at school. Work is being sent home minimally differentiated, but I just can't sit beside her all day to give support. Result = frustration all round. I feel we've just been left high and dry.
Thankfully, she's transferring to a specialist school in September where all therapies/interventions will be in-house.

Same boat here. Both of us working. Trying to help our 11 year NT child. Whilst dealing with the 10 and 7 year old both with asd and adhd. The 7 year old is non verbal so there’s a lot of screeching which sets the 10 year old off. She has ft 1:1 as well. The only thing different is the maths from school but I’m not even sure if she’s in that group. It’s just described as easier maths and has all been about shapes. And the Senco has said just do whatever which isn’t at all helpful. I’m doing a bit here and there but figure that I’m doing the best I can. Any learning is good but it’s about trying to keep a happy house.

The bottom line is the LA is still responsible for the provision in the EHC Plan. Write to the Director of Children's Services.

www.ipsea.org.uk/complaining-when-the-provision-in-an-ehc-plan-is-not-being-made-model-letter-6

Thank you Ellie56 and SENDeducation. I've also spoken with an IPSEA and they advised that if provision can't be delivered in the usual way then alternative solutions should be considered. My child can't be in school because of a medical condition, and I made (what I thought were) a few reasonable requests to school to support her at home. This was a tiny fraction of the pages and pages of provision in the EHCP, but school still turned down my requests.
Has anyone asked for a personal budget to arrange their own support at home, e.g. private OT, SaLT, SEN tutor?

The duty to provide the special educational provision in an EHCP is the LA’s rather than the school’s, so definitely use the IPSEA model letter and send to the DOCS as suggested by @Ellie56

You can still request direct payments to organise the provision yourself. The only potential problem would be how long that would take to get sorted. It may be a better idea to push the LA to provide the support. Also, you can only use direct payments to pay for provision specified in the EHCP so you probably wouldn’t be able to use it for tutoring. It would depend on the wording in section F of the EHCP.

The differences between what support, provision and education children, particularly those with SEND, have access to at the moment is shocking. My DS’ school still has professionals like SALT, OT etc. on hand to contact for support. Friends whose DC attend other local special schools haven’t even received a phone call.

Glad you got an IPSEA appointment. It seems to be easier to book them at the moment which can only be a good thing.