Who can open the plan?
The designated teacher, the DSL and senior leads with PEP access. Teaching a pupil does not give access to their plan, and the school names its designated teachers in Student Radar.
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The school's working plan for a looked-after child, open only to those who need it
Designated teachers record aspirations, views, targets and support, link the local authority ePEP, and record each review.
Student Radar organises evidence for leadership review. Leaders retain responsibility for evaluation, assurance and decisions.
Questions for the working day
The questions this answers
What goes in it?
A PEP for a looked-after child, or a voluntary plan for a previously looked-after child: strengths and aspirations, the child’s views, carers’ views, the education baseline, the support network, and targets with owners, review dates and the funding requested, agreed and used.
Where does the local authority ePEP fit?
Alongside it. The plan holds the ePEP reference and a link to it, and preparing a meeting pack or recording a review sends nothing to the local authority. Approval stays in the ePEP process.
What happens at review?
A meeting pack is prepared as a PDF and shared through the school’s own secure route. The decision, reasons and next steps are kept as a fixed record, and the next review is scheduled.
Evidence in context
A working plan that shows its gaps
The plan compares its planning basis with the child’s recorded care status and shows a mismatch rather than changing either. School evidence for the review period lists each source, including ones with nothing recorded, so a gap is not hidden.
- A blank funding amount means unknown, not zero
- A plan whose lead cannot open it is flagged, so the review reminder is not lost
- Available to schools in England, where Personal Education Plans apply
What changes when Personal Education Plans is connected
The value of Personal Education Plans is the route from current evidence to an accountable next step, with the people and context around the work kept visible.
A confidential plan, open only to the people who need it
Reviews kept as fixed records, with the next one scheduled
The school’s plan and the local authority ePEP kept side by side
Related help guides
See how to carry out these tasks in Student Radar, with step-by-step product help for the people using them.
The value of a connected school
School priorities with the evidence underneath.
Connected reporting gives leaders a route from the whole-school picture to a question, a named action and its review.
AttendanceSchool, cohort & session records
SENDProvision, costs & outcomes
SafeguardingAssurance & aggregated evidence
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Context for the next step
Student RadarFollow a connection to see what it makes possible
Relevant context, with access set by each staff member’s role and responsibilities. Staff decide the response.
Attendance + Lead
Follow the cohort behind the headline
Move from school attendance into year groups, pupil groups and sessions. Use the detail to focus the leadership conversation and decide what needs investigating.
Explore attendanceSEND + Lead
Review provision, delivery and the evidence of progress
Bring SEND reporting into the improvement cycle so leaders can review provision and costs alongside recorded outcomes and the gaps still needing attention.
Explore SENDSafeguarding + Lead
Keep oversight appropriate to the audience
Use safeguarding assurance and aggregated evidence for leadership oversight, while case detail stays within authorised safeguarding workflows.
Explore safeguarding
Ask to see Personal Education Plans in the Demo School
Starting a plan and recording a review, with access kept narrow.