Keep EHC plans for special educational needs, MPs say

MPs, education, health and care plans (EHCPs) known as special education needs for children who need to be scrapped individual care plans should not be scrapped.

The Training Election Committee Report also requires new minimum support standards and more training for special education needs and disabled people (SOD) and teachers in schools.

The government is expected to publish plans on how to send reforms in the UK this autumn this autumn. There He refused to ignore before Get rid of ehcp.

In response to today’s report, the Ministry of Education says that he is listening to families because he brings together “transforming results for each child” plans.

The Education Election Committee spent the last eight months searching for how to achieve long -term sustainability for the SOD system in the UK and how to improve the results for children and young people.

Today, in their reports, they made various suggestions to the Ministry of Education, including the following:

• Send the courts as “accountability return” for keeping ehcPs and for parents

• To create a new legal national minimum standards that support schools should offer about special education needs for all needs

• Send more and more for future kind school staff, including chief teachers.

• Investing in more state expert schools

• Sending funds in line with increasing inflation.

. National Audit Office said Last year, the reference system as a whole in the UK was not “financially sustainable” and despite the major increases in financing in the last 10 years, it did not give better results for children and young people.

Number of children and young people in England with EHCP Rose to 638,745The highest number since it was introduced ten years ago. EHCP is a legal document that supports the special education needs of a child or young person.

Approximately 1.3 million students support special education needs in schools in the UK without EHCP, but many parents value legal rights to support that they have struggled too much to put forward plans.

Helen Hayes MP, the head of the training election committee, says that the “Root and Branch reform of the sending system is needed and” a really inclusive, well -based main education system “will reduce costs.

“The government should develop a national framework for the support that children with SOD can wait at school long before the need for a EHCP, so that there may be confidence and open accountability lines.”

Paul Whiteman, Secretary General of the School Leaders Association, agreed that all teachers should be trained about how to support children with special education needs, but the responsibility should not only lie with schools, he said.

“There should be a multi -institutional approach to all health and child services to support children and young people not only in schools, but also for children and young people.

He continued: “It must be an acceptance that financing is inadequate for reference and that a rethinking system should be fully caused to work.”

Tracy Winchester manages the main campaign group that sends a national crisis in Worcestershire.

He passed three courts against his local authority to change support for his son Rowan, who has been a EHCP since the age of five.

He is concerned that the government can make changes to EHCPS in the upcoming reforms of the government.

He continued: “We will not stop for the abolition of our legal rights, and his thought is terrifying. I don’t know where we will be without legal rights, not to say that everything is perfect right now.

“Local authorities should pay attention to their budgets, but ultimately the education of our children. If we don’t have this legal protection, where do we stop?”

An educational department spokesman said: “The report rightly emphasizes the” report to ensure that the best start of every local local region is routine for children who are sent for children sent to ensure that the support -based support is routine for every child who needs it without fighting. “He said.