Ministers urged to keep care plans for children with special needs
Ministers face calls to avoid interrupting their educational plans for children and young people with special needs and obstacles (SOD).
Campaigns say that training, health and care plans (EHCPs) are “valuable legal guards” and said that if the plans are removed, thousands of children may lose their access to education.
The government said it inherited the current system “on its knees”. Speaking with the BBC’s Laurah Kuensberg program on Sunday, Training Secretary Bridget Phillipson described it as a “complex and sensitive area” when asked if he could scrape EHCPs.
However, the Government of Shadow Education Neil O’Brien criticized the government for “broken promises and U -turns”.
EHCP is a legally binding document that enables a child or young person with private or educational needs to receive the correct support of a local authority.
All the details of the proposed changes will be held in October, but the ministers did not scrape their training plans and did not insist that the decisions were not taken.
One Letter to the Guardian newspaperCampaigns, without documents in the mainstream schools, said “thousands of children are at risk of rejecting vital judgment or completely losing access to education”.
“Regardless of the problems of the sending system, the answer is not to eliminate the rights of children and young people. Families cannot afford to lose these valuable legal guards.”
The letter includes charities, including charities, professors, actor Sally Phillips, and publisher Chris Packham.
Speaking with the Laura Kuensberg program on Sunday, MS Phillipson Saidl
“What I can say very clearly is that we will strengthen and give better support for children.
“Listening to parents, disability rights groups, campaignists, others and colleagues in Parliament, because it is important to do it right,” he added, but “difficult,” he said.
Shadow Minister Mr. O’Brien said the government has “no reliability”.
O’Brien said, “This is a government defined by broken promises and U -turns. They said they would want more teachers and they are less. They said they would not receive taxes for working people, but they said they did.” He said.
The data obtained from the Ministry of Education published in June have shown that the number of EHCPs has increased.
In total, in January 2025, there was an increase of 10.8% at the same point last year, 638,745 EHCP.
The number of new plans that started in 2024 increased by 15.8% compared to the previous year.
The demands of evaluating children for EHCPs increased by 11.8% in 2023 to 154,489.
An educational department spokesperson: “We have announced that there is no plan to remove send courts or to remove financing or support from children, families and schools.”
Sözcü, “children, families and schools may experience any loss of financing or support will be completely wrong to claim that” he added.
