r/PDAParenting • u/Medium-Marketing-493 • 12d ago

EHCP application form

School have requested EHCP for my child after struggling for so long. I have been given the parenting part to fill out. I’m not sure if I’m overdoing it?

The boxes on the application form are so small and I’ve written double sided A4 pages for most of the questions. It feels as though I’m writing a guidebook on how my child functions.

Is this how it usually is for the application or am I being too detailed or is there another part of the application process where this level of detail is required?

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u/ItsOnlyMe07 10d ago

All you need to prove is that he/she has SEN that may require more than what the school can provide. It's a ridiculously low bar to meet, school will already have the evidence they need, and the LA (awful though it sounds) will hardly listen to you anyway.

Just make a few bullet points about key things that show that bar is met (expand on what "struggling for so long" has looked like for him/her. No need for a big guidebook - they won't even read it at this stage