When the council makes the decision not to agree to carry out an EHC assessment (which is the first step to getting and EHCP), there is a detailed discussion carried out by a large group of people. It can be hard to capture all of this complicated information in the letter we send out. We do agree that we need to work harder on this to make it clearer exactly why we have made the decision we have.
Therefore, we have made plans to improve this by working together with parents and carers to create better letters and improve our communications. SENDACT (the team that carry out this work) would like to hear from any parents or carers who would like to help with this work.
In the meantime, parents and carers can contact SENDACT (either by phone or email) to discuss the reasons we have chosen not to agree to an assessment, the details of how to do this are in the letters that we send out.