WHAT TO PREPARE, WHAT TO ASK AND WHAT HAPPENS AFTER
EHCP annual review guide
An annual review is more than a date in the diary: it’s where you test whether the plan still describes your child, and whether the support in it is still enough. This page shows the shape that guide takes — the written version already exists in Get Help.
This is the template — the guidance itself is already written
This page shows the layout a written guide uses. It is not the guidance. For the annual review, that exists in full already, with the steps, the timing and the sources each point rests on.
The parts of this guide
- Before the reviewReading the current plan, gathering recent school, therapy and other evidence, noting what has changed, and listing provision that is not arriving or is no longer enough.
- During the meetingNeeds, provision, outcomes, what is working and what is not, your child’s own view of it, and the decisions that need to be written down.
- After the meetingThe record, what was recommended, who owes the next action, and the dates that follow from it.
- If it goes quiet, or comes back unclearHow to separate what has actually been decided from what is still waiting, and what to do about the second.
- Sources and the date checkedThe published guidance behind every statutory point, the date it was last checked, and specialist review wherever the wording carries legal weight.
The written version, and the tool for a reply
Everything above already exists for the annual review.
Go straight to the guidance
The annual review is covered in full on its own page: what to prepare, what the timings are, and where each point comes from.