FOI request (FOIR-678747968)

Education, Health, and Care Plans

Requested Wed 15 January 2025
Responded Thu 16 January 2025

I would like to request anonymised copies of Education, Health, and Care Plans (EHCPs) and any supporting reports used in their formulation, such as:

• Educational Psychology (Ed Psych) assessments

• Speech and Language Therapy (SALT) reports

• Occupational Therapy (OT) assessments

• Any other documentation used in preparing EHCPs

To ensure the dataset is representative, I am specifically requesting 40–50 anonymised EHCPs and their supporting reports, with a balance across the four broad areas of SEND as defined in the SEND Code of Practice:

1. Communication and Interaction

2. Cognition and Learning

3. Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH)

4. Sensory and/or Physical Needs

I am seeking these anonymized documents to analyse and inform a project dedicated to streamlining and improving EHCP processes, ensuring timely and high-quality outcomes for children and young people with SEND. This innovative initiative is being developed with a commitment to enhancing existing procedures, and I would greatly appreciate your cooperation in providing access to this data.

This project has strong public interest value, as it aims to develop tools that will significantly enhance the efficiency and quality of EHCP preparation. The ultimate goal is to improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND by reducing delays and increasing accuracy in the EHCP process, which I believe is an outcome shared by all stakeholders involved in SEND provision.

As an experienced SENDCO, I have worked extensively with children and young people with a wide range of special educational needs and disabilities, and I am passionate about finding ways to improve outcomes for this group. This project reflects my commitment to using my experience and knowledge to support better systems and processes for SEND provision.

I would like to emphasise that:

a. All data provided must be fully anonymized, with no identifying information included.

b. The data will be used strictly for analysis and research purposes in compliance with all relevant data protection laws, including the UK GDPR.

Response

Information not held.

All aspects of your request are the responsibility of East Sussex County Council, please visit their website for further information:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk