For general services, training, communication and resources for schools please go to the Kirklees Business Solutions website.
Within Kirklees Education Health and Care Plans are managed by a department called Sendact (Special education needs and disabilities assessment and commissioning team). They manage EHC assessments, issuing EHCP's, EHCP reviews and commissioning education provision for children and young people with EHCP's.
SENDACT can be contacted on 01484 456888 or senact@kirklees.gov.uk
Decisions to carry out an EHC assessment are made by a Decision to Assess group which meets every week to consider requests. We would encourage schools to speak with their EP, any outreach services involved or other external professionals involved with the child or young person before completing an EHC assessment.
Schools can also contact the Inclusion Support Offer to discuss potential EHCP applications.
Inclusion Support Offer page or call 01484 416919
The following documents may be useful:
Equipment budget policy (covers what will be provided by the LA equipment budget and what is to be provided by schools)
Personal budgets in EHCP's policy
Blank EHCP (Word format)
Each Local Authority has created it's own version of an EHCP, they all contain the same sections but they look different.
Below is a blank Kirklees EHCP, this can be downloaded by clicking on the image or clicking the link below.
Kirklees Blank EHCP (downloads PDF in new window)
The process for getting an EHCP takes 20 weeks, the process and all the steps involved in a request for assessment are highlighted in the image below - you can click on the image to open a clearer PDF version in a new window.
New Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment Request Form for educational settings and parent/carers & young people (EHCNA)
From September 2023, there is a new form for educational settings (Early Years, School & Post 16 settings) and parent, carers & young people to use when requesting the Local Authority (LA) to make an Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment. This will need to be supported by detailed evidence of how a Graduated Approach has been used to assess, meet and review need. Educational settings will find it helpful to refer to the LA’s Graduated Approach Toolkits to support this:
The new paperwork should be easier to complete that the previous paperwork. Educational settings can continue to use the previous paperwork, but ideally, we would like all settings to have started using the new paperwork by January 2024.
The Inclusion Support Offer (ISO) team are available to support educational settings wishing to implement the new paperwork:
The forms to complete and EHC assessment can be found here.
Educational setting EHCNA request form 2023 v2 (downloads word document)
The previous version of the EHCNA request forms are available below:
Parental request forms
Parental or young persons EHC request v2a
Educational settings request for information following a parental request