Resources for School and Setting Professionals

This section of York SEND Local Offer will provide you with resources you may need in supporting children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in an education setting.

You can also see Local Guidance and National Guidance.

Education, Health and Care Plans and Annual Reviews

The following documents will be helpful regarding Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and Annual Reviews:

View an exemplar request for Education, Health and Care Needs assessment.

Requesting health advice

Watch the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership video on requesting health advice for annual reviews.

Managing transitions

For national guidelines around transitions, view the SEND Code of Practice (6.57 and 9.179).

Locally, the Specialist Teaching Team of Autism have developed a range of recourses to support you as professionals with ensuring positive transitions for children and young people.

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities one page guides

You can access a range of one page guides created by City of York Council, based on common questions for families. You can download and share the guides with families you work with:

Education, Health and Care Plan Quality Assurance Framework

We are committed to ensuring that every Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) is child-centred, high quality and supports positive outcomes for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Our Quality Assurance Framework sets out how EHCPs are reviewed and monitored to ensure they are clear, consistent, legally compliant and reflect the views, strengths and aspirations of children, young people and their families.

Education, Health and Care Plan annual review training pack

Following feedback from the Local Area Partnership, NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (HNY ICB) has developed with its partners, an education, health and care plan (EHCP) annual review training pack. The aim of this training pack is to support SENCo’s, EHCP co-ordinators and EHCP review meeting organisers with knowing where to request health advice from for the review, the notice health practitioners require when requesting health advice and inputting updated health advice into the EHCP.

The training pack includes the training presentation and a recording of the training, which can be accessed at a convenient time. There is also the guidance document which details the process of requesting health advice for EHCP reviews.