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Settings applying for an Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHCNA / EHCP) forms and paperwork

If you are a setting requesting an Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment for a child or young person at your school or college you will need to read the guidance associated with consideration of the suitability of an education, health and care needs assessment. Settings can apply by emailing the required forms to the SEN Assessment Team – please visit Tool for Schools website to access these forms

BEFORE YOU APPLY:

Most children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities will have needs that can be met by effective use of the resources that are already available in their mainstream setting.

The ‘Ordinarily Available Inclusive Practice’ (OAIP) guide (which you can access by clicking on the link above) provides examples of how resources can be used to deliver effective strategies as part of good quality teaching and inclusive classroom practice. The SEND Code of Practice calls this ‘ordinarily available’ provision.

It is expected that settings implement all of the ordinarily available inclusive practice approaches and monitor and review their impact before a request for EHC needs assessment would be considered appropriate or suitable. This is because most pupils with SEND will have their needs met through this provision and will not, therefore, require resources over and above what is already available. Only around 3% of the pupil population will require an EHCP to enable appropriate provision to be in place. Around 12% of the pupil population will be considered as requiring additional support but their support will be provided by the ordinarily available resources and quality inclusive practice.

Please ensure you review the guidance associated with consideration of the suitability of an education, health and care needs assessment BEFORE you apply.

Please consider the guidance for supporting children and young people to contribute to a request for assessment before completing these. The pupil views can be provided in any format of your choice, however we have also designed template forms for your use. You will see there are 3 possible versions, you should choose the most suitable depending on the child’s age and needs. See forms below. If you choose to submit your own template please ensure it covers the detail held within these templates.

BEFORE you start completing the online form you will need to have a number of documents ready for your application as there is no facility to ‘save’ the document if you do not have these ready.