The SecEd Podcast: Managing EHCPs & SEND in schools

This episode of the SecEd Podcast offers best practice and tips for effectively managing Education, Health, and Care Plans (EHCPs) and supporting students with SEND in the mainstream secondary school.

Our expert panel offer advice and tips for teachers, SENCOs, and school leaders across a number of areas.

We discuss the main things that mainstream secondary schools need to bear in mind when a student has an EHCP. What do teachers need to be aware of when reading EHCPs and how should teaching staff and SENCOs work together (and with parents/carers) to ensure SEND students are supported effectively in their lessons and learning?

And how should EHCPs evolve as the student moves through secondary school and into key stage 5 (and beyond)?

We offer advice for SENCOs to help them manage the EHCP within the mainstream secondary school setting.

We also look at how to support families of students should have an EHCP but do not.

The EHCP is a local authority document and so we also discuss the role of the local authority and some of the common problems in the system.

Finally, we discuss the implications of the government's recently published SEND Improvement Plan, especially plans to digitise the EHCP.