Member

As hon. Members across the House will no doubt know from their own constituency casework, it is sometimes quite difficult for parents of children with special educational needs to achieve an education, health and care plan. The length of time taken to complete the process can vary considerably between different local authority areas, but times of between one and two years are by no means unusual. Let us take as an example some service parents who were based in Tidworth and who had managed to achieve an EHCP for their child from Wiltshire, as their local education authority, but were then transferred by the military to Catterick garrison in North Yorkshire. The risk is that they would then have to start the EHCP process all over again.