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Consults: connect the incoming plan with a reviewed response
Student Radar helps school staff review an LA EHCP consultation using the incoming plan, school context, annotations and a working decision, then retain the response sent and actual LA outcome.
An authorised person reviews the specified needs and provision. Aggregate context and generated suggestions do not decide a placement; recording a response sent is separate from actually sending it.
LA EHCP Consultations
From an incoming consultation to a considered recorded response
Connect the incoming EHCP, proposed placement, school context, working decision and reviewed letter while retaining the actual response and eventual outcome as separate records.
01
Log the incoming plan and deadline
Record the authority, receipt date, proposed year/class and actual response deadline with the incoming EHCP PDF.
02
Review the evidence and the school’s view
Annotate the specified provision, inspect the dated school context and deliberately select which insights are available to drafting. Keep the working decision under human review.
03
Save the reviewed response and retain the outcome
Edit and check the letter, send it through the school’s authorised route, then record the actual sent date/channel and the LA’s later outcome.
Working decision
Keep the provisional school view visible
Working decision distinguishes Undecided, Can meet need, Can meet need with conditions and Cannot meet need. The saved choice is separate from a response being sent or a placement being confirmed.
Review context
Choose which context belongs in the response
Class/year context retains its cohort, count coverage and recorded date. Use in response is deliberate; unselected insights are not silently adopted into the draft.
Check saved wording
Review the words that were saved
The reopened fictional response retains the staff’s request to confirm staffing and specified support. Edit, Preview, Save and Download response remain separate from external sending.
Record the actual event
Record the letter that actually went to the LA
Record response sent asks for date, recipient, channel and an explicit review statement against the saved letter. It records an event already completed through the school’s sending process; opening the form sends nothing.
A clearer consultation response record
An authorised person reviews the specified needs and provision. Aggregate context and generated suggestions do not decide a placement; recording a response sent is separate from actually sending it.
Retain selected evidence and the reviewed wording
Distinguish sent response from eventual placement outcome
Questions about Consults
Can staff annotate the incoming plan while preparing a response?
The consultation workflow includes plan annotations, school-context review and deliberately selected response evidence, alongside an editable response draft.
Is a school working decision the final placement outcome?
No. Keep the provisional school view, letter actually sent and LA placement outcome separate. Dates and aggregate context support the review without deciding it.
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Include the people who know the pupil
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Connect the incoming EHCP, proposed placement, school context, working decision and reviewed letter while retaining the actual response and eventual outcome as separate records.