EHCP

[Gabbyfair]

First Thread so bare with me if I do something wrong. Can anyone tell me what they have spent the Ehcp funding on for their child. I would like to know what sort of precise provisions EHCP pay for. I know it can pay for 1 to 1 help in class but that's all I know really. I'm currently going through in appeal and I need to write in specifically things that my son would benefit from but I don't really know what's available so I don't know what to put down. He has dyslexia and ADHD as well as severe learning difficulties. So if you could help me with any things you either are provided with by your EHCP or anything you know a child with my son's SEN 's could benefit from to aid learning. He is first year of college and I'm hoping he can go to University but he needs alot of extra support to do so.

Well, the first question is what type of school do you believe would meet DS’ needs? For instance, he might need 1:1 support in a mainstream classroom, whereas he might not in a class of 10 in a special school?

You can't just write things into the EHCP, you have to have professional evidence.

The support your child needs should have been spelt out in the reports gathered for the EHC Needs assessment. Have you got all those reports OP? If the EHCNA was carried out properly the LA should have sought advice from:

• the child’s parent or the young person;
• educational advice (usually from the head teacher or principal);
• medical advice and information from a health care professional;
• psychological advice and information from an educational psychologist;

-advice and information in relation to social care; -advice and information from any other person the local authority thinks appropriate; -where the child or young person is in or beyond year 9, advice and information in relation to provision to assist the child or young person in preparation for adulthood and independent living; and

• advice and information from any person the child’s parent or young person reasonably requests that the local authority seek advice from.

The LA is legally required to seek all of this information as a minimum.

These reports should specify very clearly what your child's needs are and specify the provision required to meet each one of these needs.

The most crucial point though is that the types of support required, must come from professional reports. Go through all the paperwork you have in DC, like professional reports and school reports and highlight where they say “DC needs.....”. That is your starting point. If you are going to appeal, do you have reports by educational psychologist, specialist dyslexia assessor/teacher, speech and language therapist, occupational therapist, community paediatrician, clinical psychologist, whoever? (Who diagnosed the ADHD?)

look on the IPSEA website for how the EHCP process works. The most important thing is that you need EVIDENCE of your child's needs like DarkMint says and then you need professional recommendations/reports as to how DS's needs can be met in school - that's where the funding comes from, not the other way round. You only get funding for supporting specific needs like Speech and Language therapy, 1:1 in the classroom, OT etc.

Dear DarkMintChocolate, we don't want to change his college, he is at the college we like him to be at. We just want extra support whilst he is there.

@Ellie56 We are allowed to write recommendations in to the report as parents. We have had the professionals put in their reports also and they have mentioned a few things that my son would need. But I'm here to find out if there's anything else that's available that hasn't been put on his report that I am not aware of. Things like @mumsthewurd said I.e. Speech and Language therapy, 1:1 in the classroom, OT etc. I can then write those things in and say as a parent this is what think I son needs to be provided for him.
Anyone with experience or expertise in SEN may have more suggestions like SLT that I may not aware of so could help to add.

@DarkMintChocolate Yes I understand the most important part is what's coming from the professionals however as we as parents have the option to add in what we think our son requires I don't want to leave anything out. But also some of the professionals are provided by the council so I do feel as the if they are a bit bias towards the council not wanting to help as much