The Department for Education has launched a consultation on the actions that a local authority should have to take if it proposes to amend an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan following a review meeting. 

Local authorities have various duties over when and how they must review an individual’s Education, Health and Care plan. The consultation looks at whether local authorities should:

• have an additional four weeks after review meetings to finalise any changes they propose to a plan. (A March 2022 High Court judgment has clarified that the current duty on LAs is to do this within four weeks of the review meeting); and
• have to circulate material for a review meeting a week earlier than currently.

The DfE hope that these proposals will benefit children, young people and their families and at the same time as deliver a more workable process.

The consultation closes on 12 August.