Appealing to the SEND Tribunal

What is the SEND Tribunal?

Appealing about an EHC needs assessment or EHC plan

Where can I get help with making an appeal?

General advice for all appeals

Refusal to assess appeals

Appeals about the contents of an EHC plan

Appealing against the school named in your EHC plan

Challenging SEND Tribunal decisions

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EHC needs assessments

An EHC needs assessment is an assessment of a child or young person’s education, health and care needs
What an EHC plan contains

An EHC plan should be written in a way that makes it clear, to parents, young people, schools, colleges and LAs, who is required to do what, when it has to happen and how often it should be reviewed
Personal budgets and direct payments

Once a child or young person has an EHC plan, the local authority must ensure the support set out in the plan is made for the child or young person
Changing an EHC plan

Once an EHC plan is in place for a child or young person, it is unlikely to remain the same over time - as they grow up, it may become out of date, and they may move to a different school or college
If your LA takes away your EHC plan

When a local authority decides to take away, or end, an EHC plan, this is called ‘ceasing to maintain’

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EHC needs assessments

An EHC needs assessment is an assessment of a child or young person’s education, health and care needs
Asking for an EHC needs assessment
Advice Line

Our Advice Line provides legally based information and next step advice on any educational issue that is the result of a child’s special educational needs or disability
Model letters

IPSEA model letters are available to download and amend for your own purposes
Making a request for an EHC needs assessment: Model letter 1
Contact us
What happens in an EHC needs assessment
Appealing to the SEND Tribunal

The SEND Tribunal is an independent national tribunal which hears parents’ and young people’s appeals against LA decisions about the special educational needs of children and young people
What an EHC plan contains

An EHC plan should be written in a way that makes it clear, to parents, young people, schools, colleges and LAs, who is required to do what, when it has to happen and how often it should be reviewed
Tribunal Helpline

Our volunteers give next step advice on appeals and disability discrimination claims to the SEND Tribunal

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