Request an education, health and care needs assessment
How to prepare your request for an EHC needs assessment.
Start your request for an EHC 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.
Apply for an EHC needs assessment
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?
We'll tell you within six weeks if we are going to do an EHC needs assessment.