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📝 Requesting an Assessment 📋 The Plan Itself ⚖️ Refusals, Appeals and the Tribunal 🧠 Specific Needs 👤 Situations 🔮 Reform and 2026 News

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New to all this? These six guides cover what most parents need first, written for the law as it stands in July 2026.

How to Request an EHCNA

The complete parent's route

Refused? What Now

First 48 hours after the letter

Unlawful Refusal Excuses

Seven arguments that fail in law

Writing Parental Views

Your story, in the right language

No Diagnosis Needed

Waiting lists count as evidence

2026 White Paper

Nothing changes before 2030

📝 Requesting an Assessment

From first doubts to a request the SEN team takes seriously.

How to Request an EHC Needs Assessment

Step-by-step parent's guide

The Request Letter

What to include, element by element

Writing Parental Views

The enclosure that does the heavy lifting

Evidence Checklist

What to gather before you apply

Who Can Request?

Parents, young people and schools

No Diagnosis? No Problem

The law does not require one

The 20 Week Timeline

Every statutory deadline mapped

Inside the Assessment

Who advises and what you contribute

School Won't Apply?

You can apply yourself - here is how

📋 The Plan Itself

Draft to final: making the plan say something enforceable.

Sections A to K Explained

What belongs where, in plain English

Draft Plan Checks

Your 15 days and what to look for

Section F Done Right

Specific, detailed and quantified

Final Plan Issued

The section 42 duty and next steps

The Annual Review

Meetings, amendments, phase transfers

⚖️ Refusals, Appeals and the Tribunal

Refused at any stage? The odds are firmly on your side.

Refused? Start Here

Your first 48 hours after the letter

Appeal a Refusal to Assess

SEND35A step by step

Assessed but No Plan

The 16 week decision and your rights

Appealing Plan Contents

Sections B, F and I challenges

The SEND Tribunal

A parent's complete guide

Tribunal Success Rates

What 99% really means

Mediation Explained

The certificate, without the myths

SEND35 and SEND35A

Which form and how to fill it in

The Working Document

Content appeals in practice

At the Hearing

The panel and how parents present

Every Appeal Deadline

The full deadline architecture

Unlawful Blanket Policies

Seven refusal excuses that fail in law

🧠 Specific Needs

How different needs map to the law and the evidence that counts.

Autism

Masking, waiting lists, home evidence

Anxiety and EBSA

School avoidance is a SEMH need

ADHD

Executive function, not naughtiness

Dyslexia

The ability-output gap as evidence

Speech and Language

Communication needs and SALT advice

PDA Profile

Demand avoidance, not defiance

Dyspraxia (DCD)

Coordination, handwriting, organisation

SEMH Needs

A full area of need in its own right

Sensory Processing

Overload, regulation and OT advice

Hearing Impairment

Your regulation 6(2) right

Vision Impairment

Qualified teacher advice required

Physical Disabilities

Access, equipment, therapy, care

Down Syndrome

Milestones and high aspirations

Global Developmental Delay

A description, not a final diagnosis

Tourette's

Suppression at school, explosion at home

Learning Disabilities

Pace, independence and real outcomes

👤 Situations

Post-16, moving house, transport and everything in between.

Post-16 and College

Plans up to 25 and who holds the rights

Home Education

How a plan works outside school

EOTAS Explained

When the council must arrange it

Moving House

The plan transfers with you

School Transport

Who gets free transport and when

Personal Budgets

Ask and the council must prepare one

🔮 Reform and 2026 News

What is actually changing, when, and what is just noise.

The 2026 White Paper

What changes and when (not before 2030)

ISP vs EHCP

The proposed new system, honestly

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