Independent Provider of Special Education Advice (known as IPSEA) offers free and independent legally based information, advice and support to help get the right education for children and young people with all kinds of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). They also provide training on the SEND legal framework to parents and carers, professionals and other organisations.
IPSEA has a suite of free downloadable legal guides and resources available to parents and carers. These guides are complemented by a free Advice Line which provides legally based information and next step advice on any educational issue that is a result of a child’s SEND. IPSEA’s Tribunal Helpline gives next step advice on appeals and disability discrimination claims to the SEND Tribunal and is also the gateway to our Tribunal Support Service where a referral can be made for more extensive casework support from a volunteer, including representation at the hearing. Our advice services are delivered by a national network of around 200 highly-trained volunteers, supervised and supported by IPSEA’s Legal Team members.
Alternatively you can download any of their parental advice sheets by clicking the link below:
2. Bullying – in a Maintained School
5. Form and Content of EHC Plan
7. Moving to a New LA Statement
9. Personal Budgets and Direct Payments
12. Requesting a Particular School or College in an EHC Plan
13. s.19 RA 1996 Duty to Arrange Education – Child with Ill-Health
15. SEN Support at School ASD PDA ODD
16. SEN Support at School Dyslexia
17. SEN Support Post 16 College
19. SEP Not Provided Statement
22. Transfer process from Statement to EHC Plan
23. Transfer process from Statement to EHC Plan Post 16
27. Requesting an EHC needs assessment post 16
28. requesting an EHC needs assessment school age
29. EHC needs assessment and secondary transfer
30. SEN and provision – independent school
32. SEN Support in FE Colleges
33. Guide for young people aged 16 to 25 on how to resolve SEND disagreements
34. Timpson review of School Exclusion