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Special educational needs

  • If your child has special educational needs you have an equal right to home educate.  However, if your child currently attends a special school his/her name cannot be removed from the roll of that school without the agreement of the Local Authority.
  • If a child who is home educated has an Education, health and care plan (EHCP), the Local Authority remains responsible for ensuring that the child’s needs are met and are under a duty to maintain the child’s statement and to review it annually.
  • It may be appropriate, once it is established that a child’s special educational needs are being met without any additional support from the County Council, to review the EHCP.
  • If the home education which the parents are providing falls short of meeting the child’s needs, as identified in the EHCP, then this education would not be deemed “suitable”.
  • If, after a period given to address the concerns, the education is still considered not suitable, you will be asked to send/return your child to school.
  • If you fail to do so a School Attendance Order may be served.
  • If you are educating your child at home and feel he/she has special educational needs you may ask the County Council to carry out a statutory assessment (or reassessment) for an EHCP.

Preparing for Adulthood for young people with SEND and additional needs event

Since May 2022 the Preparing for Adulthood (PFA) Lead role has been in place to highlight the four areas of priority for young people with SEND and their families:

  • employment
  • independent Living
  • Healthy Living
  • including wellbeing
  • community engagement including friendships.

Parent carers and professionals have told us that access points, transition plans and knowing what is going to happen next are extremely important to their young people, and their families.

We are keen to capture the priorities you have about preparing for adulthood. Your ideas and thoughts are very important to us and will feed into our preparing for adulthood framework. We would appreciate it if you could complete our quick survey https://forms.office.com/e/VjcBsuveug. This survey would be for carers whose children and young people are 11 years plus, up to the age of 25 years.

If you have any questions about this survey, or if you would like someone to support you and explain more about anything in it, please let us know. You can send an email to: martine.simpson-thomas@cambridgeshire.gov.uk