Help for SENCos and inclusion staff

The SEND Hub, register, passports, EHCPs, reviews, provision, EAL and Personal Education Plans.

Work your SEND caseload in the SEND Hub: The SEND Hub is where you run your SEND caseload day to day. It lists every pupil on the caseload with their support records, agreed provision, next review and who owns the work. Open a pupil’s…
Upload a pupil’s EHCP: Upload a pupil’s Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP) so Student Radar can organise it into its sections. You then check each section against the original document and save it. The checked…
Create an ISP from an EHCP: For a pupil with an EHCP, you can start their Individual Support Plan (ISP) from the EHCP instead of a blank page. Student Radar ticks the needs described in the EHCP, then uses AI to draft an…
Assign an intervention from the EHCP: When a pupil with an EHCP has no provision recorded yet, you can assign it from the SEND Hub. Student Radar suggests provision from the pupil’s EHCP, you choose which suggestions to assign, and…
Manage the intervention library and plan templates: The SEND Hub holds two things that shape SEND planning across your school. The Intervention Library is your catalogue of the interventions your school actually runs, with who delivers them, the…
Add a pupil to the SEND register: When your school decides a pupil needs SEND support, or wants to keep a closer eye on them, add them to the SEND register in Student Radar. You choose their register status and their broad area of…
Change a pupil’s SEND status or area of need: When a pupil’s needs change, update their entry on the SEND register: move them between Monitoring, SEN Support and EHCP, change their broad area of need, or take them off the register. Each…
Create and share a pupil passport: A pupil passport is a short, practical guide to a pupil: what they’re good at, what helps them and what to avoid. Staff who teach or support the pupil can read it, and you can share it with the…
Import pupil passports from Word: If your school already has pupil passports or support plans written in Word, you can upload them instead of retyping them. Student Radar reads each document, you match it to the right pupil, and…
Create a PEEP: A Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan (PEEP) sets out how a pupil will get out of the building safely in an emergency: the routes, equipment and staff they need, and how to communicate with them.…
Set up an annual review: Each EHCP annual review in Student Radar moves through five stages: Prepare, Meet, Report, Decision and Close. This article covers setting the review up: arranging the meeting, then using the…
Run the annual review meeting and send the report: Once the review is prepared, use the Meet, Report, Decision and Close stages to record the meeting section by section, write and send the report, record the local authority’s decision and set the…
Prepare an EHC needs assessment request: Use the EHCNA workspace to prepare a school-led request for an education, health and care (EHC) needs assessment. It brings together the school records you can access, the family’s and child’s…
Open an access arrangements case: An access arrangements case is the evidence file for a pupil who may need support in tests or exams, such as extra time or a reader. Open a case when you start gathering evidence for an…
Upload and annotate a SEND document: The SEND document library keeps your school’s SEND paperwork in one place: policies, templates, training and governance records, external agency files and EHCPs. Each document has a category, a…
Respond to an LA consultation: When a local authority is considering naming your school in a child’s EHCP, it sends you the EHCP and asks whether the school can meet the child’s needs. The Consults page tracks each consultation…
Add and cost a provision: The Provision Map lists the support your school provides for pupils with SEND: who each provision is for, how many hours it runs and what it costs. Use it to add a provision, link it to the pupils…
Review progress against SEND targets: Outcome Tracking brings together the targets in pupils’ current ISPs and the reviews staff have recorded against them. Use it to see which targets need reviewing, look at the evidence for each one…
Prepare a top-up funding request: Use Top-Up Funding to prepare a request to your local authority for additional funding for a pupil’s SEND provision. You record what the school is asking for, gather and review the evidence, track…
Record an alternative provision placement: When your school places a pupil off-site with an alternative provider, your school still keeps its duty of care. Use Alternative Provision to record the providers you use, each pupil’s placement,…
Set default provision costs and review periods: Provision Settings holds your school’s defaults for costing SEND provision and setting review dates. Student Radar uses them when provision comes from a pupil’s ISP and doesn’t have its own hourly…
Get a whole-school SEND overview: SEND on a Page brings the school’s SEND picture together on one page: how many pupils are on the SEND register, how their attendance compares with the whole school, which reviews are due, what…
Write your inclusion strategy: Schools are expected to publish an inclusion strategy on their website by 31 December 2026 and review it every year. The Inclusion Strategy page follows the Department for Education template: a…
Refer a pupil to an external specialist: When a pupil is referred to an outside professional, such as an educational psychologist, speech and language therapist or specialist teacher, record it in Experts at Hand. You link the pupil to…
Plan an intervention: Use the Intervention Planner to set up targeted support for a group of pupils: what it aims to improve, who it’s for, when the sessions run, who delivers it and how you’ll judge whether it’s…
Assess and plan support for an EAL learner: The EAL area brings together pupils who are learning English as an additional language. For each learner you can record what you’ve observed of their English, judge each strand of language…
Start a Personal Education Plan: A Personal Education Plan (PEP) records a looked-after child’s aspirations, the education targets agreed for them, the support in place and when it will next be reviewed. In school, the designated…