SEND Single Route of Redress - National Trial Explanation & Newsletters

In line with Schedule 2 of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 all local areas in England are required to publish details in their local offers for ‘notifying parents and young people of their right to appeal a decision of the local authority to the Tribunal’ and this includes their extended rights as part of the single route of redress national trial. The following information on the national trial, to supplement the information that must already be published on the right to appeal a decision of the local authority, has been included below to support local authorities in fulfilling this duty.

Single Route of Redress - National Trial

COVID-19 Update – Legislative changes to Education, Health and Care assessments, plans and Special Educational Needs and Disability tribunal 

• On the 30th April 2020 the DfE published Education, Health and Care needs assessments and plans: guidance on temporary legislative changes relating to coronavirus (COVID-19).

  The notice referred to in the guidance is available here Modification notice: EHC plans legislation changes.

  With regards to Tribunal changes specifically, the Amendment Regulations will temporarily modify current timescales for actions that local authorities and health commissioning bodies must take where the tribunal makes non-binding recommendations in respect of certain types of health and social care matters within an Education, Health and Care plan.

  Also attached is a joint ministerial letter from Minister Ford, Parliamentary-Under Secretary of State for Children and Families, and Minister Whately, Minister of State for Care, to children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disability and their parents and carers.