If your local authority (LA) decides to secure a re-assessment of your child or young person’s needs, then a full EHC needs assessment will be carried out again.

This means that all the information and advice legally required in an EHC needs assessment must be obtained. This includes anyone you reasonably ask for information to be obtained from, such as a speech and language therapist or an occupational therapist for example.

You can find a full list of all the people and bodies from whom information must be gathered on our EHC needs assessment page. You can also amend our template letters to help you:

• ask for information to be gathered by another person as a reasonable request during a re-assessment: Template letter 20.
• alert the LA if it has not obtained all the information required during the re-assessment, if relevant: Template letter 7

During the re-assessment, your child or young person’s EHC plan is still valid and legally enforceable. This means your child must continue to receive all their special educational provision specified in it, and any fees due for the provision or placement must still be paid by your LA.

Your LA must also consult with you during the re-assessment, so make sure you get your views across. If you think the EHC plan needs to change, say so and how.

It must also consider any information you provide to it (or at your request), so also make sure you send to your LA all relevant information and ask any professionals supporting your child to send relevant information.

To find out what happens after a re-assessment, please see our next section.

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