Operation Diversity - SEND and EHCP Advocacy Service
How can we help? We take the stress away from your advocacy battles by doing the work for you!
At Operation Diversity, our amazing team of SEND Advocates aim to empower you with the right knowledge, tools and inspiration to confidently advocate for your child’s needs to be identified and met in education and at home
We can offer help such as a simple support call to answer all of your questions one-to-one, to boost your confidence, or we could even attend important meetings online with you as your advocate.
Our EHCP Advocates can assist you with the EHCP process too! Preparing your requests, appeals, dealing with correspondence and negotiating with LAs, attending mediation with you or Annual Reviews with other professionals.
Have a question? – please contact us here.
Meet our SEND Advocates
Sarah Chapman
Jo Berry
Sarah Collins
Deana Spilletts
Our SEND and EHCP Advocacy Services
SEND Support or EHCP "Support Call or Zoom Video Consultation."
- Specific time slots available
Choose between a 1hr phone call or Zoom video meeting with an Operation Diversity advocate. Your advocate will follow up your call with an email detailing what was discussed during the call and a “next steps – breakdown.”
£45 per hour
EHC Needs Assessment (EHCNA) Request - "Parental Request.
- We will work to your documents deadline
We will review your child’s documentation which can include diagnostic reports, school reports, medical reports, and other associated documents. We will use those documents to compose your educational health care needs assessment request letter for you to submit to your Local Authority. Which will highlight your child’s special educational needs and the reasons why they need an assessment.
£125
"Refusal to Assess" - Drafting your "Grounds of Appeal."
- We will work to your documents deadline
The “Refusal to Assess Grounds of Appeal” service we offer includes reviewing all of the supporting documents and writing your grounds of appeal position statement based on the evidence provided. We will then correspond with you to make sure the grounds of appeal is a true reflection of your child’s Special Educational Needs (SEN) and the reasons why an Educational Health Care Needs Assessment is essential. The grounds of appeal and the supporting documents used will all be emailed to you in numerical order once you are satisfied with the contents of the grounds of appeal.
£275
"Refusal to Issue" - Drafting your "Grounds of Appeal."
- We will work to your documents deadline
The refusal to issue grounds of appeal service we offer includes reviewing all of the supporting documents and writing your grounds of appeal position statement based on the evidence provided. We will then correspond with you to make sure the grounds of appeal is a true reflection of your child’s special educational needs and the reasons why an Educational Health Care Plan is essential. The grounds of appeal and the supporting documents used will all be emailed to you in numerical order once you are satisfied with the contents of the grounds of appeal.
£480
"EHCP Check" - "Fully Loaded."
- We will work to your documents deadline
The EHCP check “Fully Loaded” includes:
• Reviewing all of the reports provided
• Checking Section A is appropriate
• Making sure all of your child’s needs in the reports are identified in Section B.
• Ensuring all of the provisions outlined in the reports are written into Section F
• Amending the provisions so they are all specific and quantified
• Within Section E making sure all of the outcomes are S.M.A.R.T
• We will also make sure that all of the broad areas of need are within the EHCP throughout
We will check your EHCP in the same format as a working document, which can be used as your working document if you have lodged an appeal.
£380 (up to 4 reports) - Additional reports £40 per report.
"Contents Appeal" - Section B (Needs), Section F (Provision) and optional Section I - (Placement)- Drafting your "Grounds of Appeal."
- We will work to your documents deadline
The contents grounds of appeal service we offer includes reviewing all of the supporting documents and writing your grounds of appeal position statement based on the evidence provided. We will then correspond with you to make sure the grounds of appeal is a true reflection of the reasons why the contents inadequately reflect your child’s special educational needs within Section B and highlight the lack of provisions set out in Section F and/or where they are not specific and quantified. The grounds of appeal and the supporting documents used will all be emailed to you in numerical order once you are satisfied with the contents.
If you also need to appeal I (Placement), please also select the additional “Appealing Section I – (Placement)”- Drafting your “Grounds of Appeal” at checkout.
The placement grounds of appeal service we offer includes reviewing all of the supporting evidence and writing your grounds of appeal position statement for your preferred placement based on the evidence provided. We will detail the reasons why your preferred school is essential supported by the relevant Acts, legislations, and case laws. The grounds of appeal and the supporting documents used will all be emailed to you in numerical order once you are satisfied with the contents.
£480 (B & F) or £540 (B, F & I)
'Independent' - "Report Quality Check"
- We will work to your documents deadline
We will review the ‘independent (private) professional’s report and then amend the report as necessary using the ‘Tribunal Key.’ This will include suggesting any amendments required to make the report specific and quantified as required by the SEND Code of Practice, under Section 9.69.
Unfortunately, at the moment, we are unable to do “Report Quality Checks” on Local Authority reports.
We can and will, however, review Local Authority reports as part of our Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) Checks.
£60 per report
Advocacy Service Reviews
Need help?
-Submit a query - Please be mindful that we have families too and so our team will not be responding to emails over the weekends. Our official working hours are 9:00am – 5:00pm Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays).