Request an education, health and care needs assessment

Before you start the application, you should have your supporting documents to hand.

You can make a request by:

• Creating an EHC needs assessment through our Children's Portal 
• or by contacting your local SEN team.

Support for applying via our children’s portal

Guidance on using our children’s portal to submit an EHC needs assessment application can be found on the support page.

What happens next?

The EHCP Casework Officer will coordinate and submit advice and information for consideration at panels. We'll tell you within six weeks if we will do an EHC needs assessment.

The process takes 20 weeks. The SEN timeline document (pdf format, 765 KB) explains this process in more detail.