Guiding you through the Education, Health and Care statutory assessment in England
An easy-to-use app dedicated to monitoring the statutory 20 week timeline and empowering you to have a voice at every stage of the process.
- Every statutory deadline tracked against your case's own start date
- Guidance, reminders and editable letters to question decisions and delays
- No online account, no cloud, no adverts. All your data stays safe on your device
How it works
Three things to set up, then the app does the counting.
The EHC needs assessment process in England runs to a legal timetable. Most families only find out a deadline has passed long after it has. EHCPwise keeps that timetable in your pocket.
Add your case details
The date the assessment started, who started it and the name and details of your local authority and caseworker. That is all it takes to begin.
Watch the clock
Deadlines are monitored for you and shown on the live timeline, with reminders three days before each one is due and again on the day.
Act with confidence
When a date slips, or you need to query a decision, you will find plain English guidance and editable letters already completed with your and your caseworker's details. For ease, you can then send them directly from your device.
The statutory timetable
What your local authority has to do, and by when
- Week 6 Decision on whether to assess The local authority must tell you whether it will carry out an EHC needs assessment, and if it decides not to, give you its specific reasons why.
- Weeks 6 to 16 Professional advice gathered Track Education, Educational Psychology, Health and Social Care advice against their six week time frame. If you request advice from other professionals, you can also record the date those reports arrive.
- Week 16 Decision on whether to issue a plan The local authority must tell you whether it will issue an EHC plan, and send you the draft if it will. If it decides not to, it must give you its specific reasons why.
- 15 days Your time to comment Once the draft is issued you have 15 days to respond with your views and give a preference for a school or college setting.
- Week 20 Final plan issued The whole process from request to final plan must be finished within 20 weeks. If your local authority misses that deadline, EHCPwise explains your options, from chasing the delay to making a formal complaint, and supports you at each step.
What is inside
Everything in one place, so nothing gets lost.
EHCPwise not only collates data, it also explains what should happen at each stage and gives a parent, carer or young person a voice when things go wrong.
Live statutory timeline
Six week decision, sixteen week draft and twenty week final plan, all tracked from your own start date, plus the fifteen days you have to comment once the draft arrives.
Reminders and calendar
A notification three days before each deadline and again on the day, plus one tap to add them to your own calendar.
Advice checklist
Tick off Education, Educational Psychology, Health and Social Care advice as it arrives, along with anything you have asked for from other professionals. Each one is tracked against the six weeks it is due within.
Your views, on the record
Your local authority must ask what you think, both before it decides whether to assess and again during the assessment itself. EHCPwise helps you write your views down, send them and keep a copy of exactly what you sent and when.
Letters that write themselves
Request an assessment, chase or query a decision, respond to the draft plan, query the placement named in your plan, request mediation, make a formal complaint or refer the case to the Ombudsman. Your case details are merged in for you.
Know your rights
Plain English guidance on appealing to the SEND Tribunal, making a formal complaint and what to do if a decision goes the wrong way. Appeal deadlines are tracked too.
Document store
Photograph or import reports, letters and emails so the whole file sits in one place, ready to open or share whenever you need it.
Contact log
A dated record of every call, email and meeting, with who it was with. This is the paper trail that carries weight if you ever appeal or complain.
Meeting preparation and glossary
A checklist of what to ask before a meeting, including any advice still missing, plus a glossary that turns SEND jargon into ordinary English.
Case summary export
Turn everything you have tracked into a single PDF you can hand to an adviser, a solicitor or a new caseworker, without retelling the whole story.
Privacy by design
You are in control of your data.
There is no account to create and no server to sign in to, because there is no server. Everything you enter lives in the app on your own device, which means it cannot be leaked, sold or handed over by us. We could not read it if we tried.
- Nothing is uploadedNo cloud sync, no backups to us, no analytics and no advertising identifiers.
- Locked if you want itProtect the app with Face ID, Touch ID or your device passcode.
- Yours to deleteOne tap removes every case detail, document and log entry from the device for good.
- No adverts, no in-app purchasesNothing is advertised to you and nothing is sold to you inside the app. What you download is the whole app.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or something the app gets wrong about your local authority? We would like to hear it.
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