Education, health and care needs re-assessment

A review of your child's education, health and care (EHC) plan every year is a good way to check their progress but sometimes that will not be enough. If your child’s educational or health needs, or situation, change a lot they may need to have a statutory reassessment of their needs. This means having a new EHC needs assessment.

We may carry out a reassessment if you, your young person aged 16 to 25, or their education setting ask for one, as long as:

• it has been more than 6 months since the last EHC needs assessment was done
• we decide or agree a further EHC needs assessment is needed.

We may also carry out a reassessment at any other time if we think it is necessary.

When you ask us for a reassessment, we must tell you if we will reassess or not within 15 calendar days. If we decide not to reassess, you have the right to appeal that decision and to go to mediation or tribunal.

The process for a reassessment is the same as for an EHC needs assessment. The law says a reassessment must take at most 14 weeks. The 14 weeks start when the decision to reassess is made and ends when a final EHC plan is issued.