(IPSEA) Independent Provider of Special Education Advice

After you send in your appeal form, the SEND Tribunal will register your appeal and will write to you and the local authority (LA) to tell you both what steps needs to be taken and when by. At the same time, the SEND Tribunal will send to the LA a copy of your appeal documents. The SEND Tribunal aims to reply within 10 working days (working days do not include Saturdays, Sundays...

This one day training provides an introduction to the law on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The content is particularly relevant for professionals advising or supporting families of children and young people with SEND. This training covers: The Children and Families Act 2014 The duties of local authorities and schools Education, Health and Care (EHC) needs a...

Yes. Judicial review claims are heard in the Administrative Court (part of the High Court). Judicial review claims are very different to appeals and claims made in the SEND Tribunal. Unlike SEND Tribunal proceedings, there is a risk in judicial review that the court could order the unsuccessful party to pay some or all the successful party's legal costs (in addition to having...

When a local authority (LA) changes its mind in mediation, and decides that it will issue an EHC plan, then it must send a draft EHC plan to the parent or young person within 5 weeks of the mediation agreement and a final plan within 11 weeks of the mediation agreement (unless the parties agree otherwise). These timescales do not apply if the LA changes its mind before mediation...

Phase transfer review Where a young person has an EHC plan and is moving into sixth form, the local authority (LA) must review the plan as part of the phase transfer process. The LA must review and, where necessary, amend the plan by 31 March in Year 11. This is so that Section I names the setting or type of setting the young person will attend for post-16 education. If th...