Kent SEND - notice of change to EHCP decision process
12 May 2023
There are criteria laid out in the SEND Code of Practice which tell us how we should make decisions of whether to accept a request for assessment and whether to issue an EHC plan.
However, these criteria require the consideration of multiple complex factors, so we’ve broken them down into manageable chunks to help our officers to apply the criteria in a consistent and fair way - ensuring we consider all the relevant aspects of a child or young person’s situation when making a decision.
This isn’t a change to the criteria that we have always used from the SEND Code of Practice, but we believe it will improve the consistency of how they are applied. We are sharing these with you so that there is transparency around how we are making these decisions and so that you can take them into consideration when judging whether to request an assessment.
The two sets of criteria are included in the full Kent SEND - notice of change to EHCP decision process - May 2023 (this document is currently under review).