NHS referral by Ed Psych. Report received 12/05/2021...
Educational Psychologist Assessment
Carried out over video conferencing due to COVID. Report received 23/03/2021 Educational Psychologist made a referral for a Speech and Language Assessment, which is unusual as this should have been part of the standard needs assessment....
Final EHCP Issued
After several meetings and many emails we finally had an EHCP for Victoria....
Application Agreed
4 days after refusing to assess Victoria for an EHCP, our local authority reversed their decision. A week of calls, paperwork, stress and worry for nothing but we were finally on the right track...
Application Rejected
The local authority rejected our application for a needs assessment because the information they required from her school had not been received within the required timescales. The information was actually sent by the school at 1.30am the day after it was due, so this was our first experience of petty officialdom....
Local Authority confirmation
Local Authority confirm that they are “considering whether to carry out a needs assessment”. They are considering whether they will consider granting an EHCP!...
Submitted EHCP Paperwork
Just before Christmas we submitted the required paperwork and supporting evidence requesting an EHCP needs assessment....
Draft EHCP Issued
It really wasn’t very good...
Started work on getting an EHCP
Having seen first hand how far behind Victoria was at school whilst home-schooling, we kicked off the process of securing an EHCP to establish her additional required provisions in a legally-binding document. We Are Beams helped us massively at this stage, advising on the right way to complete the necessary paperwork...
Pain in legs
Victoria had been reporting pains in her legs which we got checked out to be on the safe side. Following an assessment and blood tests it was suggested there was nothing untoward and this was simply “growing pains”, but that Victoria’s autism may well make her hypersensitive to pain....