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    Check an EHCP is specific enough to deliver.

    Sendix reviews EHCPs against the Children and Families Act 2014 and the SEND Code of Practice. It flags outcomes and provision too vague to deliver or review, cites the rule behind each flag, drafts a fix from evidence in the file, and leaves every decision to you.

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    On a fictional plan. No pupil data, and nothing to sign.

    What does a finding look like?

    A fictional plan. The provision doesn’t say who delivers it, so Sendix asks for the report it needs instead of guessing.

    Outcome

    Provision

    Comes loose at “who delivers it?”

    Fictional EHCP · Ava, Year 5 · Section F21 provision flagged

    Need · B3

    Ava experiences sensory overload in noisy environments. When overloaded, she can leave learning activities and requires a predictable sensory regulation strategy to help her return to learning.

    Outcome · E2

    By the end of Year 6, Ava will use an agreed sensory regulation strategy and return to a learning activity within ten minutes in four out of five recorded occasions.

    Provision · F2, as written

    Ava will receive a 30-minute sensory regulation session once per week.

    Who delivers it?

    The plan doesn’t say. Sendix won’t guess: it asks for the report named in Section K.

    Statutory guidanceSEND Code of Practice 2015, chapter 9, Section F: provision should normally be quantified, including the level of expertise. (opens the source in a new tab)

    Fix once the evidence arrives · Occupational Therapy Assessment — May 2026 · you decide

    Ava will receive a 30-minute sensory regulation session once per week, delivered by a teaching assistant who has completed occupational therapy sensory-integration training and works under the supervision of an occupational therapist.

    Drafted only once the report is in the file. Staff accept, edit or reject it.

    Where the evidence is already in the plan, Sendix drafts the fix straight away: try accepting or editing one on the homepage.

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    What does Sendix check in an EHCP?

    It reads the plan and the file behind it: the reports, the child’s views and the review history.

    Section E outcomes
    Whether each outcome describes what the child will be able to do, not the service they’ll get, and is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound, with a starting point and a date to review it against.
    Section F provision
    Wording such as “as required” or “appropriate” that leaves the type, hours, frequency or level of expertise open, so nobody can tell what is owed or whether it happened.
    The thread from need to provision
    Each provision is read with the need in Section B and the outcome in Section E it serves, so a flag shows where the thread comes loose.
    The evidence for a fix
    A rewrite is drafted only from evidence already in the file. Where the evidence isn’t there, Sendix names the report it needs instead of guessing.

    What is each flag based on?

    Every finding names its basis and links to the source. The SEND Code’s “must” is a legal requirement; its “should” means the guidance must be considered and any departure explained. Some checks, such as whether an outcome has a starting point, are Sendix’s own and are labelled that way.

    What do I take to the council?

    An amendment request in Word
    The changes you accept are exported as a Section F amendment request with tracked changes, deletions in red and additions in green, to send with the annual review report or as a request to amend.
    Your recommendations, with their basis
    After an annual review, the school’s report must set out recommendations on any amendments required to the plan (SEND Code of Practice, paragraph 9.176). Each change you send carries the rule and the evidence behind it.
    The plan stays in force meanwhile
    Only the council can amend an EHCP, and it consults the family first (SEND Code of Practice, paragraphs 9.193 to 9.198). Until it does, staff keep delivering the provision as written.

    Guides

    • How to check an EHCP is legally compliant: a SENCO's checklist

      A section-by-section checklist for the EHCP your school has to deliver, based on the Children and Families Act 2014, the SEND Regulations 2014 and the SEND Code of Practice, and what to do when something is missing.

      England · Updated · 7 min read

    • Getting Section F specific: provision that can be delivered and checked

      Section F is the part of an EHCP the local authority must secure. If it says 'access to' or 'as needed', nobody can tell what is owed, or whether it happened. Here is how to tighten it.

      England · Updated · 6 min read

    • What makes an EHCP outcome measurable

      An outcome in Section E has to be something you can check at review. Here is what the law and the SEND Code of Practice actually ask for, with rewritten examples you can adapt.

      England · Updated · 6 min read