Statutory SEN2 Return: Part 3 EHC Plans issued within 20 weeks (3.70.001)

Description

Feature Update for 3.70.001 (KB0015706/KB-481974) Statutory SEN2 Return is now available.

This update is to implement a late change from the DfE in relation to Part 3: EHC Plans issued within 20 weeks and OVR – LA decision overturned.

Part 3: Education, Health and Care Plans issued within 20 weeks

The data collected measures the percentage of EHC Plans that are issued within 20 weeks of the initial request (or the child or young person otherwise coming to the local authority’s attention), within each calendar year.

Question 3.1: EHC Plans issued within 20 weeks (including exceptions)

Steps

1. Select all EHCP assessment involvements recorded where:

• The Date Final Issued (INV_FORM_SEN_ASSESSMENT.STAT_COMPLETE_DATE) is in the return year.

• The Assessment Type is either:
  • INI – Transfer in mid assessment

• • OVR – LA decision overturned

(Note: OVR involvements will only be included when an EHC plan is issued after an LAs overturned decision of refusing to assess a child or young person following mediation or tribunal). The system will determine if the overturned decision was for a refusal to assess by checking if the previous Involvement satisfies the following conditions:

• • • The EHCP assessment involvement form Started checkbox (INV_FORM_SEN_ASSESSMENT.ASS_START) is not checked.

• • • The Assessment Start Date (INV_FORM_SEN_ASSESSMENT.ASS_START_DATE) is NULL.

• • • The Inactive Reason (INV_FORM_SEN_ASSESSMENT.INACTIVE_REASON) (Table_ID 0328) has an external code of REF – Assessment Refused.

(Note: if the internal code of MID-Transfer in mid assessment which is mapped to the external code of INI is used, then this is excluded from Part 3)

(Note: if the external code of the involvement is OVR-LA decision overturned, then this will be excluded from Part 3, except for the scenario when an EHC plan is issued after an LAs overturned decision of refusing to assess a child or young person following mediation or tribunal)

2.   Calculate the timescale to issue the final EHC plans in days, as mentioned in the SEN Assessment Notified/Requested Duration (in Days) section of Part D: Definition of Common Terms.

(Note: for OVR-LA decision overturned involvements that are included, the timescale for the length of time to issue the EHC plan is calculated by the length of time between the Received Date on the first inactive Involvement where the assessment was refused compared with the Date Final Issued on the second OVR-LA decision overturned involvement + 1 day.

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Last Updated: 15/11/2019 00:00