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Information we need to process your education, health and care needs assessment request

We ask that your education setting completes the request on your behalf, because of the evidence we need to support the request.

However, if you wish to request a needs assessment yourself, you can still do so without talking to the education setting.

About you and your child or young person

We will need some information about you including:

  • your name, address and contact details
  • whether you need an interpreter

We also need details about your child or young person's:

  • name, address, date of birth, pronouns, religion and ethnicity
  • early years setting, school, college or sixth form name and address
  • behaviour and emotions, health needs, social care needs, likes and dislikes and if they need an interpreter.

As well as understanding of:

  • what is and is not working for your child or young person
  • any extra support they need.

We value the views and opinions of children, young people, and their families. These are important to us, as our transition charter and co-production charter explain.

Your child or young person's education setting

Evidence of any:

  • actions taken to meet your child or young person's special educational needs. This includes evidence of involvement from an outside agency professionals. As well as any educational psychologists and specialist teachers
  • circumstances where the education setting has not been able to follow the graduated approach cycles of ‘assess, plan, do, review’
  • meetings they have had with you
  • physical, emotional, health and social impacts on your child or young person's education and learning
  • reasonable adjustments put in place to help your child or young person's to access the curriculum and the physical environment
  • strategies or interventions that have been implemented, and given time to work and be evaluated
  • involvement from the Local Inclusion Forum Team (LIFT).

Reports of your child or young person's:

  • attendance
  • progress in reading, writing, communication and numeracy, as a result of the extra support
  • learning difficulties when using their home language, if English is not their first or main language.

Health and social care services

We may need additional information about:

  • any social care support your child or young person is getting
  • evidence of actions already taken to meet your child or young person's special educational needs. This will include evidence of involvement from an outside agency professionals, including:
    • speech and language therapists
    • occupational therapists
    • physiotherapists
    • medical professionals.
  • names of doctors who diagnosed any conditions and the year of diagnosis.

Request an education, health and care needs assessment (EHCNA)

Once you have all the information we need, you can request an EHCNA.