As a Special Educational Needs & Disability (SEND) Consultant, my extensive experience and passion in this field has enabled me to successfully support families, children and young people with Special Needs as well as supporting Schools and Educational professionals. Speaking from a professional and personal stance, having gone through the EHCP process, I have full empathy with parents and appreciate that this can be overwhelming at times.
My extensive career within the SEND department of Essex County Council spanned over 18 years, where I was working within the Statutory Assessment Service as a Locality Casework Manager. I undertook the processes relating to the initiation and progression of requests for EHCPs and as a line manager, had the responsibility of supervising and monitoring the casework and Educational Health Care Needs Assessments (EHCNA) to ensure the statutory responsibilities and the local authority’s policies were adhered to. I have extensive experience and success with supporting parents and schools with managing a child’s EHCP, amending EHCPs, attending annual reviews, mediation meetings, complex cases, children at risk of school placement breakdown or exclusion and prepared paperwork for Tribunals and Appeals.
