Carrie Grant

My twins are nine now, but it became clear that they had

quite significant needs when they were babies.

And so we have had quite a different experience from Carrie's family.

And you hear there are all these different types of experience based on the level of need that your child has.

So nobody can deny for a second that my children have very significant needs.

They can't talk.

when they were two.

I didn't know anything about SEND, autism, this system.

I knew literally nothing.

And I thought, well, it's obvious that they're really quite disabled.

And so this should be quite straightforward.

Here's the law.

What?

Easy, right?

I applied for EHCPs for them.

Education, health and care plans are legal documents which set out a child's needs, the provision that's required to meet those needs and then outcomes that they can achieve if that provision is given to them and also which school or setting that they will attend.

So you can apply for it yourself.

Most requests come from schools who have pupils that they can't support well enough.

And so they make a request for this plan.

But parents can apply too.