{"id":73911,"date":"2026-04-07T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/?page_id=73911"},"modified":"2026-06-24T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:16:04","slug":"education-care-and-health-needs-assessments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/education-and-learning\/how-will-school-support-my-child\/send-support-in-school\/educational-psychology\/parents\/education-care-and-health-needs-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"Contribution to education, health and care needs assessments (EHCNA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For most children, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/education-and-learning\/how-will-school-support-my-child\/send-support-in-school\/educational-psychology\/parents\/how-eps-help-children-and-young-people\/\">support identified after a consultation<\/a> works well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a small number of children with significant needs, more joint assessment and planning may be needed, and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/education-health-and-care-plans\/what-is-an-ehc-needs-assessment\/\">education, health and care (EHC) needs assessment<\/a> is requested from the SEND Operations Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The Educational Psychology Service is asked by Devon County Council to give advice as part of this assessment. It is a legal requirement for an EP to provide advice as part of this process. We write a report to explain what we have found and what we think your child needs. Our reports are known as \u2018psychological advice\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most children, the support identified after a consultation works well. For a small number of children with significant needs, more joint assessment and planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":73930,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-73911","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-16 17:52:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74941,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73911\/revisions\/74941"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}