Education, Health & Care Planning

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As part of the PfA demonstration sites, Cheshire West and Chester and Newcastle upon Tyne have been developing their practice in relation to personalisation and Personal Budgets. For those children and young people with Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans there is a right to request a Personal Budget. In order for Personal Budgets to be most effective they need to be considered alongside joint commissioning across education, health and care.

This Learning Example follows the work from PfA demonstration sites, Bath & North East Somerset, Dudley, Kingston and Richmond, Leeds, Newcastle, Portsmouth, and Rutland looking at how they've developed their practice in relation to EHC plans. 

A quick guide for practitioners supporting young people.

Transition to adults' services can be a difficult time for young people. They need support and reassurance to help them move on to a more independent life. This quick guide explains how early planning and access to the right information can help young people and their families to make the right choices. It will be of interest to all practitioners who support young people as they move from children's to adults' services.

B&NES Council has appointed three part-time SEND practitioners to complete the transfer of statements of special educational needs to education, health and care plans (EHCPs). B&NES decided to pilot basing these local authority staff members in the two special schools in the area and work alongside the administrators and tutors.