2, 2, 2, 4 Weeks: The Four EHCP Review Deadlines Parents Are Owed

The annual review letter gives a date and a list of names — and the attachment is never there. The SEND Code of Practice puts four clocks around that meeting, and all four belong to you: two weeks' notice, the pack two weeks before, the school's report two weeks after, the council's decision within four. A teacher who writes those reports and a document-reader walk through what a parent is actually entitled to, age by age: the three-to-six-month "should" for under-fives, the fifteenth of February deadline for a Year 6 child, and the moment at sixteen when the letters start going to your child instead of you.

Sources: DfE / DHSC — SEND Code of Practice: 0 to 25 years (January 2015), paragraphs 1.8, 8.14–8.16, 9.166–9.169, 9.176, 9.178 and 9.179 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25

Both voices on this show are synthesised; the research, reading and editorial judgement are done by a serving practitioner.

Strand: Parents & Carers