Ehcp, who do I ask for help?

[elliejjtiny]

Ds4 is 10 and in year 6. He has moderate learning disability, possible dyspraxia, mild hearing loss and some health issues. He is in mainstream primary school with an ehcp and band 4 funding. We want him to go to our catchment mainstream secondary.

At his ehcp review meeting last autumn we and the school agreed that he should be at mainstream secondary but with more support and more funding than he currently gets. Nobody from the LA came to the meeting, we just got an email from them to say they will be in touch.

Someone from the LA emailed us yesterday with a revised ehcp but nothing from section f has changed. They have just adjusted the dates on his targets he hasn't achieved yet and said that the school needs changing from the primary to the secondary school. I have discussed in depth the support he will need in secondary school with staff at both the primary school and the secondary school but I'm worried that if it's not in his section f then he won't get them. I've been asked by the LA to email her with any changes but I don't know how to word it so that he actually gets the help and I'm worried I will forget to include something important.

this is what I've got at the moment

Ds to have a laptop in lessons where writing is required
Ds to attend the weekly handwriting support group
Ds to be part of the group of SEN students who visit the local college to learn practical skills like cooking and car maintenance (I don't know what this is called, I'll have to ask the secondary school senco)
Ds to be allowed to leave lessons 5 minutes early to ensure he arrives at his next lesson on time.

I can't think of anything else. He already has some things in his section f like sitting in the front of the class and the teacher checking with him that he has heard the instructions. He also has a scribe for exams and a laminated "ready to learn" checklist to remind him to get his pencil, exercise book etc out, write the date down and also reminding him about capital letters, full stops and spaces between words which he tends to forget.

When the LA issue a finalised EHCP (which they must do by 15th Feb) you can appeal if the EHCP isn’t good enough.

Provision in EHCPs is taken from evidence, so back up each of your points by referencing the evidence demonstrating the provision is required.

Think about things like assistive technology, support with organisation, homework, leaving 5 mins early at the end of the day, uniform adjustments.

If a scribe is required for exams, is one required in lessons? For GCSE, exam access arrangements have to be a student’s normal way of working. Does DS need 1:1? Including during break and lunch. Does DS need support with practical lessons, including things like getting dressed after PE? Are therapies e.g. OT, SALT included in F?