Chris Gravell
@chrisg43.bsky.social
Retired, reads a lot, doesn't dust, vague lefty. Bikes, e-bikes, cargo bikes, disability rights, trans rights, Palestine, etc.
Few ECHPs are appealed. The latest statistics show an 18% increase in appeals, but that percentage conceals a relatively low number compared with the number of appealable decisions, and many appeals are over failure to assess for an ECHP, not the contents of the Plan. 2/2
January 26, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Few ECHPs are appealed. The latest statistics show an 18% increase in appeals, but that percentage conceals a relatively low number compared with the number of appealable decisions, and many appeals are over failure to assess for an ECHP, not the contents of the Plan. 2/2
It would be helpful if you did some statistical analysis of the situation with ECHPs. Very few are written precisely enough to entitle individual children to properly individualised support, so the system as operated by LAs and schools allows the ECHP money to provide general SEND support. 1/2
January 26, 2026 at 2:19 PM
It would be helpful if you did some statistical analysis of the situation with ECHPs. Very few are written precisely enough to entitle individual children to properly individualised support, so the system as operated by LAs and schools allows the ECHP money to provide general SEND support. 1/2
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1030am Sunday: the BBC is still mainly just notifcing "starkly varying accounts" and offering a "recap" which is all "key lines" and always prioritising what people say happened, over what they could now report actually happened to scrutinise the starkly varying accounts
January 25, 2026 at 10:44 AM
1030am Sunday: the BBC is still mainly just notifcing "starkly varying accounts" and offering a "recap" which is all "key lines" and always prioritising what people say happened, over what they could now report actually happened to scrutinise the starkly varying accounts