
Dan Rosenberg
Partner, Education & Public Law Solicitor
If you want to appeal your child's EHCP, we can help. For initial advice call our Education Law Solicitors.
Does your child have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), or do they need one? Contact us for advice and guidance. Find out how we can help.
If you don’t think your child is getting the right support for their education, an appeal to the SEND Tribunal may be necessary.
The appeals process will look different depending on your child, but no matter which stage you are up to, our Education Lawyers can help you.
We have years of experience in helping children get detailed, up to date Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) that fully meets their needs. Our team of Education Law experts have secured many independent school placements, access to therapies such as Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, ABA and appropriate school transport for children with Special Educational Needs (SEN).
Whether you want us to help from the moment you receive your decision letter, just provide tactical or strategic advice or represent you at a hearing, we will work to meet your needs and do everything we can to get your child the support they need.
Get in touch with our Education Lawyers today.
You can appeal to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Tribunall if:
If you’re not sure whether you can appeal your child’s EHCP, get in touch with our Education Lawyers for advice tailored to you and your child.
If you can’t make an appeal, there are other ways our team maybe able to help. Judicial Review could be one of several ways in which our specialist lawyers may be able to help.
We represent parents and children, not Local Authorities. So you can be sure our focus will always be on helping you navigate the system and you can trust that we’re on your side
We are the Open Lawyers which means we will always be open and honest with our advice and our fees
The appeals process is designed to be as parent friendly as possible, so you don’t have to use a Lawyer but many of the families we speak to consider there to be a huge advantage to getting specific advice on appeals.
Even if you don’t need to use an Education Lawyer for the entire process, getting advice before you attend the hearing can make sure you submit all the right evidence and that the case you put forward is as strong as it can be.
Our Education Law team know the appeals process inside out and have experience of what the SEND Tribunal needs to see to understand that your child needs more support for their education.
Getting legal help can save you the time and stress of going it alone.
Our lawyers helped Emilie get a residential placement after appealing an EHCP.
No matter what the Local Authority’s decision is, you’ll receive a letter which will outline what you can do next.
The details of your local mediation provider will be on your decision letter and before making an appeal you need to show that you’ve considered using a mediator.
You don’t have to go through mediation, as long as you can show you considered it and have spoken with the allocated mediation advisor about the pros and cons of mediation.
Once you have spoken to a mediator, they will provide you with a mediation certificate which you will need to make an appeal even if you do not go through the mediation.
You can download a form from the gov.uk website. You’ll need to choose which sections of the EHCP you want to appeal and provide reasons for your appeal.
This is a really important part of the appeals process, supplying proper evidence such as therapy and school reports to support your case could make the difference between winning your appeal.
You either have 2 months from the date you received your letter, or 30 days from the date you received your mediation certificate to lodge your appeal with the SEND Tribunal. Your deadline is the later of these two.
The deadline for phase transfer is 15th February (31st March for children over 16-years-old). By this time, your Local Authority should have put together a final Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) naming a school or college for your child to attend from the following September.
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Heather, Lucy and Mia have helped greatly in relation to getting the Local Authority to supply education provision for a child with special needs. This had been dragging on prior to their involvemen...
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I highly recommend Simpson Millar for their excellent advice and professionalism. We had reached a deadline when dealing with our local authority regarding a special needs school place for our daughte...
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My experience was Fantastic- Although I can’t comment too much on Simpson&Miller as a company, due to having contact with one Solicitor dealing with my case- I was very lucky to have Saskia Coles work...
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An EHCP (Education, Health and Care Plan) identifies your child’s Special Educational Needs (SEN) and should entitle them to the right provision they need to support them.
The reality of the end of Year 12 for all students normally includes a set of internal exams. This helps the school or college to have a better understand of how well pupils have coped with the transition from GCSE to A Level work, and helps inform the process of providing predicted grades to universities.
If your child has Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), they may need an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). But we understand that EHCPs can be confusing.
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