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EHCP annual review calculator

How does the calculator work?

Your local authority will invite you to an EHCP review meeting.


After the meeting, your local authority will send you an amended version of the EHCP, also called an 'amendment notice'.


Enter the date of your annual review meeting.


If you have a date for your amendment notice, enter that too.


Then click 'Calculate' to see a timeline of the process with the deadlines for you and your local authority.

Your dates

Date must be before the amendment notice meeting.
Date must be after annual review meeting.

EHCP annual review meeting timeline

Your local authority will invite you to an EHCP review meeting.


After the meeting, your local authority will send you an amended version of the EHCP, also called an 'amendment notice'.


Enter dates into the timeline to see the deadlines for you and your local authority.

2 weeks before the meeting

The Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) invites you to the annual review meeting.

The local authority or school gathers information from everyone involved and shares this before the meeting. Check the information and EHCP before the meeting.

Your annual review meeting

Date of your annual review meeting
Date must be before the amendment notice meeting.
Your action needed

Together, you will all check your child's progress against their agreed outcomes.

EHCP reviews

2 weeks after the meeting

Deadline for local authority to send the annual report. It should have arrived with you by this date.

4 weeks after the meeting

Deadline for local authority to tell you if they are making changes.

Draft EHCP issued

Date on the updated draft EHCP sent by your local authority, also called the 'amendment notice'.


Date must be after annual review meeting.

Your local authority sends you a draft EHCP and an 'amendment notice' of any planned changes. Check the draft EHCP and amendment notice.

Up to 15 days after

Your action needed

When you get the revised EHCP, you have 15 days to respond and suggest changes

8 weeks after

Deadline for local authority to share the finalised EHCP.

When you get the finalised EHCP, you have 8 weeks to respond.

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