Information about how to seek an EHC needs assessment

4.57 The Local Offer must include information about how to request a needs assessment for an EHC plan. A request is likely to happen where special educational provision currently being made for them by their early years setting, school or college from their own resources, is not enabling the child or young person to make adequate progress.

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4.58 The information should include:
• how the local authority will consider a request for an assessment and inform parents and young people of their decision
• how parents, children and young people will be involved in the assessment process
• what support is available to help families during the needs assessment process and the development of an EHC plan
• the timescales involved in the assessment process
• the process for making an EHC plan

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4.58 The information should include:
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• information about the option of having a Personal Budget, including a local policy for Personal Budgets, produced with parents and young people. This should provide:
- a description of the services across education, health and social care that currently lend themselves to the use of Personal Budgets
- the mechanisms of control for funding available to parents and young people including direct payments, arrangements and third party arrangements (see Chapter 9, Education, Health and Care needs assessments and plans)
- clear and simple statements setting out eligibility criteria and the decision-making processes that underpin them
- the support available to help families manage a Personal Budget
- arrangements for complaints, mediation, disagreement resolution and appeals

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