Modification notice: education health and care plans legislation changes

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Children and Families Act 2014: EHC plans modification notice May 2020

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On 28 April 2020, the Secretary of State for Education issued a notice modifying section 42 of the 2014 Act to modify section 42 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (the duty to secure special educational provision and health care provision in accordance with an EHC plan). The specified time period of that notice was 1 May to 31 May 2020.

The Secretary of State for Education has now issued a second notice to modify section 42 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (the duty to secure special educational provision and health care provision in accordance with an EHC plan).

This notice will be relevant to:

• local authorities
• health commissioning bodies
• children and young people with EHC plans
• parents
• others involved in the EHC plan process

It will modify the duty on local authorities to secure or arrange special educational provision and on health commissioning bodies to arrange health provision in accordance with EHC plans, so that they can discharge this by using their ‘reasonable endeavours’.

The new notice applies from 1 June 2020 to 30 June 2020.

Under the Coronavirus Act 2020, the Secretary of State for Education can issue notices to temporarily remove or relax statutory requirements where this is an appropriate and proportionate action relating to the incidence or transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19).