Ensuring an independent future for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND): a critical examination of the impact of education, health and care plans in England
- Submitting institution
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University of Derby
- Unit of assessment
- 23 - Education
- Output identifier
- 781018-1
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/03069885.2017.1413706
- Title of journal
- British Journal of Guidance and Counselling
- Article number
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- First page
- 479
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 0306-9885
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03069885.2017.1413706
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The article was underpinned by the following:
Adams, L., Tindle, A., Basran, S., Dobie, S., Thomson, D., Robinson, D., and Shepherd, C. (2017) Education, health and care plans: parents and young people survey. London: DfE
Early findings inspired this polemical piece on the EHC plans and their potential impact on careers policy and practice.
The aim of the survey was to build a representative national picture of how parents and young people in England were experiencing the Education, Health and Care assessment process and the resultant EHC plans, to assess whether delivery of EHC plans properly reflected the intentions set out in the Children and Families Act 2014 and the accompanying SEND Code of Practice.
The study sought to
• Understand the extent to which children, young people and parents experienced EHC needs assessments and EHC plans as they are intended to be experienced;
• Understand variation in experiences by groups with different characteristics;
• Explore how satisfied they were with the process and the resultant EHC plan, and the extent to which this varied by local authority and by groups with different characteristics;
• Identify how the Education, Health and Care assessment process and the resultant EHC plans could be improved;
• Understand any variation in experiences by local authority, to identify where action was needed to improve experiences, and where, conversely, there were examples of best practice from which others could learn.
There were three key stages to the study:
• Cognitive testing of the questionnaire, testing content and also different formats (online, telephone, postal);
• A feasibility stage to test the likely mainstage survey response rates by conducting a small-scale survey using different contact strategies;
• A mainstage which involved collecting the views of parents, children and young people who had received an EHC plan in 2015.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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