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From September 2014, as part of reforms to services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), statements of SEN have been replaced by education, health and care (EHC) plans, outlining how multi-agency staff will work with families to improve outcomes for each child or young person aged up to 25. Ministers promised this meant an end to families "battling against a complex and fragmented system", promising support that "fits in with their needs and not the other way round".
In December 2016, Plymouth City Council was praised by Ofsted and Care Quality Commission inspectors for its multi-agency commitment to the reforms, the family involvement in EHC plans and the pace of their rollout; of Plymouth's 1,351 statemented children in September 2014, 1,073 (79 per cent) have now transferred to EHC plans, twice the national average. The authority is on track to transfer the rest by the April 2018 deadline.
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