Whilst it’s been another rollercoaster of a year for SEND, against a backdrop of even more turbulent national politics, we are ending the year on a more positive note! Here’s Enhance EHC’s top 10 SEND highlights and company achievements for 2019: With the hard work of our fabulous team of writers, trainers and office staff, we [...]
1. Increase in EHC plan numbers Multiple speakers mentioned the increase in overall number of EHC plans and new requests (an increase of 11% overall, with 16% more new plans issued in 2018 than 2017); this increase in number has not been accounted for by the addition of the 18-25 cohort. Is this a positive trend, [...]
The long-awaited Education Select Committee SEND Inquiry report, published last week, sets out comprehensive and explicit findings, as well as urgent recommendations, many of which echo our own experiences and calls for change. The report covers huge ground – from the implementation and accountability of the 2014 SEND reforms, to the perspectives of the different agencies [...]
Every September we hold a team lunch party in place of our monthly writer development session, in order to celebrate whole team successes (including surviving the busy summer period!) and to recognise individual staff achievements. This year’s Long Service Awards were particularly special: two more of our writers joined the 10+ years club, and we celebrated [...]
Many Local Authorities are taking a fresh look at different areas and processes of their SEND system in order to address weaknesses identified in the Written Statements of Action issued following Ofsted/CQC joint local area SEND inspections. We were recently commissioned by one such Local Authority (LA) to provide an independent quality audit of their EHC [...]
We are proud to announce that our Enhance Your Skills Online EHCP Training programmes have recently achieved accredited CPD Status with the CPD Standards Office! The CPD Standards Office forms part of the Professional Development Consortium and bring a wealth of knowledge and research within the Learning and Development Industry. To achieve this accreditation and status [...]
As anyone that works in the SEND world knows, there are always new things to learn and numerous perspectives from which to gain insight into this complex, yet rewarding, area. We recruit our EHC plan writers on the basis of their writing skills and, whilst a number of our writers also have a range of experience [...]
We are really excited to announce the launch of our new Enhance Your Skills Online EHCP Training system - and to offer 50% off online EHCP training programmes still in the beta testing phase. Our online EHCP training programmes are based on our 23 years’ experience training EHCP writers and our oversight of best practice across the country. [...]
EHCP Good Practice Resource Pack for Local Authorities Normally £215+VAT NOW ONLY £161.25+VAT for physical copy (Price including VAT: £193.50. Includes a downloadable PDF version. Free postage & packaging) Guidance, analysis and resources designed to help LAs and other stakeholders gain a national perspective of EHC plans and ensure that good practices are consistently adopted across the country. [...]
The latest session for the Education Committee focused on the joint local area SEND inspections and how problems in the system are currently being resolved. We were particularly interested in the discussion around the increasing number of local areas being requested to submit a Written Statement of Action following inspections, which has risen from 25% in 2016 [...]
