Annual Review

What is an Annual Review?

If you have an Education, Health and Care plan (sometimes called an EHCP):

• An EHCP must be reviewed by the Local Authority every 12 months.
• You can update any section in your plan if you wish.

Annual Review Meeting

The Annual Review meeting must:

• Listen to your views, wishes and feelings.
• Be all about you.
• See what support is right for you.

How can you get your views across?

There are many different ways you can give your view in the meeting like:

• Making a video
• Writing a letter
• Recorded message
• Draw pictures of diagrams of what helps or doesn’t help you
• Talk to PIAS who can help.

Make my voice ‘Heard’

• You can ask the SENCO to help you before the meeting.
• You can ask a parent or carer to give your views for you.
• You can ask PIAS for support.

Important Timelines

The following dates are important for the Annual Review:

• If you are changing or transferring to another school like form year 9 to year 10, the annual review must be finished by 15 February.
• If you are post-16+, the Annual Review needs to be completed by 31 March, before you move into further education.
• Invitations to the Annual Review meeting must be given out 2 weeks before the meeting, the Head teacher usually does this.
• Within 4 weeks of the Annual Review meeting, the Local Authority must decide to either:

1. Maintain the plan – keep it the same.
2. Amend the plan – change some things on it.
3. Cease the plan – stop the plan (this will be discussed with you first).

Will someone help me in an Annual Review meeting?

• You can ask PIAS for support.
• If you have any questions about your EHC plan, ask one of our team for support.

How can PIAS Help you?

PIAS can help you:

• Make sure you can get your views across to the school or college.
• Support you to ask for help at school or college.
• Help you understand paperwork.
• Make sure you have `your say`.
• Sometimes support you in meetings with the school or college.
• Support you to get an EHCP (Education, Health & Care Plan).
• Help you to understand your own EHCP (Education, Health & Care Plan) if you have one.

How to Contact PIAS

You can contact us in several different ways:

• Through our website via the contact us form.
• Email us at: pias@plymouth.gov.uk
• Call us on 01752 258933.
• Visit Facebook at: @plymouthias