EHCP Consultation

When a learner is granted an EHCP, or at any transition point between settings (E.g. into school, Primary to Secondary, Secondary to Post 16 or into further education or training) or into a Hull City school from out of area parents and learners will be asked for their preference of school.

The Code of Practice States ‘If a child’s parent or a young person makes a request for a particular nursery, school or post-16 institution … the local authority must comply with that preference and name the school or college in the EHC plan unless:

• It would be unsuitable for the age, ability, aptitude or SEN of the child or young person, or
• The attendance of the child or young person there would be incompatible with the efficient education of others, or the efficient use of resources’

The Local Authority SEND Team will then send a copy of the EHCP and consult with the school on how they feel they are able to meet a learners needs and the provision outlined in the EHC Plan.

Schools must respond to the consultation within 15 calendar days.

In their response schools should state that they are able to meet the child’s needs and will therefore be named in section I of the EHC Plan or that they do not feel it would be appropriate to name their setting. If a setting does not feel it would be appropriate they must clearly evidence their reasons in support of one of the two exceptions details above.