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

Your child's nursery, school, college, or sixth form should request a needs assessment for you. This is because of some of the evidence we need to support the request.

If you wish to request a needs assessment yourself, that's okay. You can do so without talking to your child's 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
  • ethnicity
  • spoken language (whether they need an interpreter)
  • early years setting, school, college or sixth form name and address
  • behaviour and emotions
  • health needs
  • social care needs
  • likes and dislikes.

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 you, your child, young people and your family. These matter to us, as our transition charter and co-production charter explains.

Your child or young person's education setting

Evidence of any:

  • actions taken to meet your child or young person's needs. Including any evidence of help from any outside agency professionals. Also any educational psychologists and specialist teachers.
  • proof 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 their education
  • reasonable adjustments put in place to help them access the education and the classroom
  • strategies or interventions that are in place
  • 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 more information about:

  • any social care support that your child or young person is getting
  • proof of actions already taken to meet your child or young person's needs. This includes proof of help from professionals, such as:
    • 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 details we need, request an EHCNA.