Challenging Local Authorities on SEND Funding and SEND placements

Defending Schools’ Rights on SEND

Seminar Brief

Ensuring access to appropriate funding is a challenge that many schools are facing, and which is made more difficult by the increase in unsuitable placements being made. In this session, Forbes break down the legal steps schools can take to challenge local authority decisions around SEND funding, as well as challenging decisions of the local authority to place a child in your school. You’ll have a clearer understanding of your rights, the options available to you, and how to prepare robust responses to the local authority.

In this seminar we explore

• Ensuring that your school can successfully challenge local authority funding decisions

• Challenging decisions of the local authority to place a child in your school

• The process to get an assessment and EHCP for a child

• Making of special educational provision via EHCPs or alternative provision

• Preparing robust responses, navigating challenges, and protecting your school

Take home points

Clear guidance on your school’s options, robustly challenging decisions, and protecting your school.

This session is for school business leaders who

Are facing challenges with dealing with the increased requirement to place children with EHCPs and want to know how to push back effectively.