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SEND and education.

Practical resources for families navigating special educational needs and disabilities.

EHCP timeline guide and tracker

Enter the date you asked for an assessment and the tracker works out every legal deadline — 6 weeks to decide whether to assess, 16 weeks to decide whether to issue a plan, 20 weeks to the final plan — and tells you when a deadline has passed.

Download EHCP timeline guide and tracker ↗

EHC plans: the statutory timelines

A stage-by-stage guide to getting an EHC plan and to the annual review: who must do what, by when, the law that says so, and what you can do if a deadline is missed.

SEND law: challenge routes guide

Is your child's plan really final? A checklist

Model letters

Ready-to-adapt letters: asking for an EHC needs assessment; chasing a missed deadline; asking for missing provision under section 42; a subject access request; a Freedom of Information request.

Provision tracker

Turn Section F of your child's plan into a weekly checklist, so you can show exactly what has and has not been delivered.

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