What is the purpose of an EHC plan review
EHC plan reviews are intended to:
- bring together your views, and those involved in helping you
- consider your progression towards the outcomes in the EHC plan
- consider if any changes need to be made to the EHC plan and in some cases if it is still required
How often plans are reviewed
Devon County Council must review an EHC plan at least once within every 12-month period. We ask schools to arrange a review meeting, which should take place ten months after we send out the first EHC plan. The school, college or other provider usually arranges and leads the annual review meeting.
A review may take place sooner than 12 months if you are transferring to a new school or college or there has been a significant change in your health, care or educational needs which will affect the support you require.
What is a significant change?
As you grow and develop, we would expect small changes which affect how your school or college supports you. However, if there are changes that affect your education, we may need to amend the plan. The changes could include:
- health needs
- social care needs
- your educational progression
- the support is no longer suitable
- the support is no longer required
If you think there has been a significant change, please talk to your school or education provider about having a review.
Invitation to the review
Here is a short video on using the EHC Hub to accept an invite to a meeting:
Step-by-step guidance to accepting an invite is available here.
When you will know about the review meeting
At least two weeks’ notice must be given to all invitees.
However, we hope that in most circumstances you will be given a lot more. We recommend to meeting organisers (usually the schools SENDCO) to give at least a term’s notice or around 16 weeks. This allows professionals time to plan their attendance or consider how they can contribute to the review if they can’t attend.
You will be asked to provide your views ahead of the meeting.
Who attends
On the invite, you will be able to see who has currently been invited to attend.
This will include representatives from education, health, social care and school or setting.
If you would like to have others invited who do not appear on the list, please contact the meeting organiser.
Next steps
- Confirm attendance or speak with the meeting organiser if the date is unsuitable.
- Make the meeting organiser aware of any special requirements such as access to the building.
- Consider if there are any professionals involved that the organiser has not invited but should be asked to contribute.
- Contact the Devon Information, Advice and Support (DIAS) service if you would like any support in preparing for the meeting.
How to contribute your views
Here is a short video on using the EHC Hub to contribute your views:
Step-by-step guidance to contributing your views is available here.
Information you will be asked for before the meeting
Ahead of the scheduled meeting, the meeting organiser will ask you to share your views. They may also ask for the views of your parent or carers. They will ask if you feel that progression is being made towards the outcomes set out in the current EHC plan.
The EHC Hub will prompt you to answer the following questions:
- Do you feel that progress is being made towards some or all of the outcomes set out in the EHC Plan?
- What do you feel has been working well?
- What do you feel is not working well and would like to be different?
These will be used in the final report. It will also ask about:
- important things to know about your family history
- things that are working well at home and school
- things that are not working well and you would like to change
- your hopes and aspirations for the future
- other information you think is important
Please note these will not be used in the report but may help inform the discussion.
This information can be recorded as images, video or text and uploaded to the Hub.
If you need any help contributing your views you can contact DiAS for support.