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The SEND improvement plan and reshaping EHCPs

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One of the suggestions of the recent SEND review was to overhaul EHCPs, something that is being continued under the SEND AP improvement plan.
Ofsted and the CQC have carried out joint inspections since 2016. Picture: Adobe Stock
DfE wants to streamline EHCPs, experts say - Photographeeeu/Adobe Stock

The Department for Education (DfE) commissioned the SEND Review in 2019. The aim of this review was to explore the challenges faced by children and their families with identified special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). In March 2022, after much consultation, a green paper was published which puts forward several suggestions as to how the SEND process can be better administered to improve efficiency and, ultimately, improve outcomes for those children and their families. In amongst the plethora of suggestion sits one around EHCPs (education, health and care plans).

Despite delays to parts of the implementation of the recommendations laid out in the SEND green paper, the SEND Alternative Provision Improvement Plan seeks to press on with revised EHCPs; “This will include delivery of digital requirements for EHCP systems to improve experiences for parents, carers and professionals, decrease bureaucracy and improve the ability to monitor the health of the SEND system.”

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