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Tools

Practical tools that do the work with you: they compute your deadlines, check a draft plan, and build legally framed letters — each one grounded in the statute or guidance it quotes. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you enter is recorded or sent anywhere.

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Calculators & checkers

Work out where you stand

Turn your letters and dates into the deadlines and checks that follow from them.

Deadline calculatorTurn the dates on your letters into your exact statutory deadlines, every rule cited.Check your draft plan17 questions to pressure-test a draft EHC plan before it is finalised.Phase-transfer countdownLive countdown to the 15 February and 31 March deadlines when your child changes phase.

Letter builders

Take action — build a letter

Assemble a legally framed letter, in your browser, from fixed clauses and the actual test.

Request an assessmentBuild the EHC needs-assessment request letter around the actual legal test.Refused an assessment?The appeal pack and a grounds-of-appeal builder for a refusal to assess.Annual review packThe review duties and clocks, an evidence checklist, and two ready-to-send letters.Plans don't end at 16The cease-to-maintain rights, and a challenge letter if a cease decision arrives.

Decision & prep guides

Weigh your options

The routes side by side, and the procedure spelled out, so you can choose with the rules in front of you.

Mediation or appeal?What the certificate step actually requires, and how the two routes compare.Tribunal preparationThe forms, timetable and working document, from HMCTS's own guide.

NOJ publishes sourced legal information about England's SEND framework. Check the source links and review date on this page because law and guidance can change. We are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice about your individual situation. For help with your own case: IPSEA (ipsea.org.uk), SOS!SEN (sossen.org.uk), or your local SENDIASS via your council's Local Offer.