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EHCP - Going to Tribunal

NAS71204

Hi,

Do you possibly know where to ask for advice on the procedure of appealing to Tribunal? Have any of you had an experience with Tribunal? I wonder how it looks like and what support we need to win the case. 

Thanks x 

  • in reply to NAS87710

    Not touting for business but ...  sometimes an Independent Social Work report can help. I argued that a child had a right to a social life and, much to my surprise, SENDIST agreed to put swimming and riding for the disabled in the package under social care. (I don't think the local authority were happy, but they had to pay for it.)  A carer will collect her from school and take her to activities. This also provides respite for parents. I can't see many local authority social workers offering a package like that the first time around!

    The main thing is to make sure you get advice, from either a solicitor or specialist advocate.  Independent experts are not cheap, you can easily spend £1k a time. Sometimes I feel guilty because although I need to make a living, I realise that not everybody can afford to pay for an expert. Unfortunately, it means that parents who are really hard up can't always get help now that Legal Aid is so scarce.

  • Hi getting private reports from an educational psychologist, speech and language therapist and occupational therapists were invaluable, please do not rely on NHS reports for occupational, speech and language therapy or the local authority education psychology service as I felt they favoured the local authority more than the parent, it is a very complicated process and IPSEA became my lifeline - if you can afford legal representation ‘also invaluable’ they will sort out the tribunal bundle and the relevant time frames and correspond with the solicitor on the local authority side, It was the most stressful and awful time of my life but my son was granted what he was legally entitled too an Ehcp and a place in a specialist school in which he flourished so much that the local authority ceased his Ehcp when he transitioned to an adult lol !!! Good luckx

  • er here's the forms to start the case

    https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/special-educational-needs-and-disability-tribunal-forms

    and this is the rule book for how the tribunal works

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-education-and-social-care-chamber-tribunal-rules

    also there is this video

    www.youtube.com/watch

    by the way I read a figure the other day that 95% of these cases the parents win.