EHC assessment move to OOC
We agreed to an EHC assessment for a child who is moving to another LA next week.
The deadline dates for assessment are:
12 weeks 2/3
16 weeks 30/3
20 weeks 27/4
Can we just pass the assessment over the the new LA for them to pick up or should we be doing it still?
Or professionals haven't done reports yet
Thanks
Lucy
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EHC plan duties are only owed to children in your area and once a child has moved to a different LA you don't need to keep doing the assessment. The Code of Practice advises on this situation as follows:
"9.162 Some children and young people will move between local authority areas while they are being assessed for a plan. The new authority in such cases should decide whether it needs to carry out an EHC needs assessment themselves and it must decide whether to undertake an EHC needs assessment if it receives a request from the child’s parent or the young person. The new authority should take account of the fact that the old authority decided to carry out an EHC needs assessment when making its decision. If it decides to do so then it should use the information already gathered as part of its own EHC needs assessment. Depending on how far the assessment had progressed, this information should help the new authority complete the assessment more quickly than it would otherwise have done."
In most cases, one would expect the new LA to take over where the old one left off but as the above makes clear, the new LA can take a different view.