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SEND Advocacy Empowering Voices, Creating Change

SEND Advocacy Empowering Voices, Creating Change SEND Advocacy Empowering Voices, Creating Change SEND Advocacy Empowering Voices, Creating Change

SEND advocacy navigating the education system for children and young people with Special Educational Needs

Empowering parents, carers and young people

SEND Advocacy Empowering Voices, Creating Change

SEND Advocacy Empowering Voices, Creating Change SEND Advocacy Empowering Voices, Creating Change SEND Advocacy Empowering Voices, Creating Change

SEND advocacy navigating the education system for children and young people with Special Educational Needs

Empowering parents, carers and young people

About Send Sense Advocacy

Deana began a full-time career as a SEND Education Law Advocate at the beginning of 2020 after experiencing the complexities of understanding and obtaining support for her children with special educational needs. Deana completed the IPSEA SEND Disability Law courses in levels 1, 2 & 3 in 2020,  later enabling her to become a SENDIASS practitioner providing free SEND advocacy. Deana later joined the country's first and longest-running childrens charity in their children's legal practice unit as an Education Caseworker Paralegal securing appropriate educational provision for children with special educational needs. Deana is currently in the third year of study for her law degree and hopes to sit the Solicitors Qualifying Exam.

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LEGAL AID

If you are on a low-income or receiving certain benefits, you may be eligible for Legal Aid. In some cases, a young person may qualify for legal aid in their own right, The type of legal aid available for SEND Tribunal Cases is known as 'Legal Help'. If eligible, you can obtain support from a legal professional to prepare your case and funding for expert professional reports. Legal Help does not cover having a representative at the hearing. https://www.gov.uk/check-legal-aid

Send Sense Advocacy

info@sendsenseadvocacy.co.uk

Hours

Open today

09:00 – 17:00

Services

Support Call

£35

A 45-minute discussion to understand your current position, provide advice and discuss next step options around SEND support in schools, EHC Needs Assessments and other SEND Advocacy services. Please book all calls through the Get In Touch facility on the website.

Meeting Attendance

£180

In person or virtual support for meetings with a school or Local Authority for an Annual Review meeting or support at Mediation. In person attendance will be charged at £30 per hour travel time and 0.45p per mile fuel cost. Costs include review of any relevant documentation.

Parental Request for an Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment Letter

£120

Drafting your parental request for an Education, Health and Care Needs assessment. I will draft a request using all of your evidence such as any already existing assessment reports, diagnostic reports or other relevant documentation. You will be provided with the draft to review and submit to your Local Authority.

General School Meeting Support

£35 per hour

Support at school meetings to discuss SEND support, concerns and ways forward.  In person or virtual attendance.  In person attendance will  be charged at £30ph travel time and 45p mile 

EHCP Services

EHCP Check Service

£150 + £30 per report

A check of your child or young persons Education, Health and Care Plan to ensure that it is legally compliant containing the correct level of specification and quantification necessary. The EHCP will be checked to establish if all the special educational needs are identified in Section B (needs), and that the special educational provision to meet those needs are listed in Section F (Provision).

Report Service Check

£30

Check service for both Local Authority commissioned reports and independent reports to check if the recommendations are specific and quantified. This service then allows you to send the report check back to the relevant professional for them to consider and amend if appropriate. Each report is charged seperately.

Working Document

£150 + £30 per report

If you have already registered your appeal with the First Tier Tribunal (Special Education Needs and Disability), (SENDIST), you will have received a word version of the Education, Health and Care Plan from the Local Authority, this is known as the Working Document. The Working Document is a legal document and is part of the appeal process, there are set rules for those who work on the Working Document to follow laid down in the Tribunal Key. 

Tribunal Services

Grounds of Appeal, Refusal to Assess or Re-Assess, Refusal to Issue

£360

Drafting your Grounds of Appeal  for a refusal to carry out an Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment (ECHNA), refusal to re-assess Education, Health and Care needs, refusal to issue an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). You will be required to send me a copy of the Local Authority's decision letter and supporting evidence along with a copy of the Mediation Certificate. I will draft the Grounds of Appeal and complete the tribunal form to allow you to register your appeal.

Grounds of Appeal for Contents, Contents and Placement, Cease to Maintain

£480

Drafting your Contents Appeal for Sections B (needs) & Section F (provision) of the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP),  or an extended appeal for Sections B & F plus Health and Social Care. Drafting Contents appeal for Sectiion B (needs), Section F (provision) and Section I (placement). Drafting Grounds of appeal for Cease to Maintain an Education, Health and Care Plan

Tribunal Case Management

£30 per hour

If you need to register an appeal but do not feel that you can navigate the process alone then this service may assist. I can manage the process for you up to the point of attendance at the hearing should a hearing be necessary.  It is always the intention that all parties work collaboratively to resolve as many of the disputed issues as possible prior to the hearing in an effort to negate the need to attend Tribual or ensure efficiency at the hearing.

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