EHC assessments and social care advice and information

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Educational Rights Alliance (ERA)

Dear East Riding of Yorkshire Council,

Regulation 6 Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 sets out the advice that the Local Authority must secure as part of an Education Health and Care Needs Assessment. Part of that Regulation requires that advice and information in relation to social care is obtained during the EHC Needs Assessment.

Please advise the following with regard to EHC Needs Assessments from Sep 2014 to date, on a year by year basis. Do include new applications and transfers from Statement of SEN and LDA.

1. How many EHC Needs Assessments were carried out?

2. How many of (1) included a social care assessment?

3. How many of (2) were new to social care?

4. Where a social care assessment was NOT carried out as part of the EHC Needs Assessment for a child or young person NEW to social care, what social care advice was provided?

Yours faithfully,

Educational Rights Alliance (ERA)

Freedom of Information, East Riding of Yorkshire Council

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Freedom of Information, East Riding of Yorkshire Council

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Dear Educational Rights Alliance,

Further to your recent request for access to information within the
Freedom of Information Act, please see the attached letter.

Kind regards,

Freedom of Information

Fiona Nicholson left an annotation ()

"How many EHC Needs Assessments were carried out?
2014/15 - 153
2015/16 - 246
2016/17 - 222
With regard to the remainder of the request, the information is held on two systems would have to be manually searched through to identify if any child undergoing EHCP Assessment has had involvement with the social care department."