EHC assessments and social care advice and information

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Dear Bath and North East Somerset 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,

Phin Silberrad

Information Governance, Bath and North East Somerset Council

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From:  Phin Silberrad <[FOI #439186 email]>

Sent:    17 October 2017 15:58

To:       Information Governance

Subject:           Freedom of Information request - EHC assessments and
social care advice

and information

 

Dear Bath and North East Somerset 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,

 

Phin Silberrad

 

 

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