EHC assessments and social care advice and information
Dear Kent County 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)
Dear Sir or Madam
Thank you for your email below.
Kent County Council acknowledges your request for information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. Assuming KCC holds this information, we
will endeavour to supply the data to you as soon as possible but no later
than 10th November 2017 (20 working days from date of receipt).
We will advise you as soon as possible if we do not hold this information
or if there are exemptions to be considered and/or any costs for providing
the information. Please quote our reference - FOI/17/1743 - in any
communication regarding this particular request.
Best regards,
Peter Wylie | Access Information Officer | Information Resilience &
Transparency Team | Room 2.71, Sessions House, Maidstone | Tel 03000
415563 | Fax 03000 420303 |
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Dear Sir or Madam
Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) 2000, relating to EHC Needs Assessments. Please
accept my sincere apologies for the slight delay in responding to you; I
appreciate that the Council has not complied with statutory timescales on
this occasion.
I am pleased to provide the attached spreadsheet in answer to your
request.
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on our website. Please quote reference FOI/17/1743.
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Yours sincerely
Jemila Dodge | Information Access Officer | Information Resilience &
Transparency Team | Kent County Council | Room 2.71, Sessions House,
Maidstone, ME14 1XQ | Phone: 03000 416034 |
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