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Children with an EHC plan have doubled since 2016, to around 483,000 — up 11% in the last year alone. Demand keeps climbing because meaningful support arrives only once a child is already in difficulty.
Source: DfE, EHC plans, England 2025
Building • Beta Sep 2026 · Public Jan 2027UK SEND • Early help for every child • Built by a Chartered Educational Psychologist
Help that arrives early — so no child has to fail first.
Most of what a child needs is ordinary teaching, shaped well — delivered the moment a need shows, by every teacher, with the educational psychologist involved early, not only at the EHCP stage. So most children never need the statutory route at all. And when one is genuinely needed, the evidence is already there — a one-click, tribunal-defensible request. One record, every professional, the whole way: parents, young people, schools, educational psychologists and local authorities, anchored in the Children and Families Act 2014, the SEND Code of Practice 2015 (revised 2024), UK GDPR and KCSIE 2025.
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Tuesday 6 January 2027 — spring term, 9.00 a.m. UK time.
“Every child with SEND deserves more than a slow process and a paper trail. They deserve a system that listens, acts and remembers — because the law already says they do.”
Dr Scott I-Patrick CPsychol · Chartered, HCPC-registered Educational Psychologist · Founder
The problem, in the system's own numbers
England's SEND system was built to help children — and it is buckling.
These are not our figures. They are the Department for Education's, the Tribunal service's, the British Psychological Society's and councils' own. They describe a system that helps too late, contests families it almost always loses, and consumes the very specialists who could have prevented the need in the first place.
£153m
Spent by local authorities in a single year on SEND tribunals they almost always lose — upheld in just 1.3% of full hearings, across roughly 25,000 appeals a year. Families and councils both lose; only the dispute wins.
Source: Tribunal statistics; Special Needs Jungle£8.2bn
The projected high-needs deficit by 2026/27. As the statutory override ends, nearly half of councils face effective bankruptcy. The money is spent fighting the fire, not preventing it.
Source: Council finance reporting (Room 151)1 : 9,400
In the worst-served areas, one educational psychologist for every 9,400 children — and over half of EPs say they cannot meet demand, because statutory assessment consumes the time they could spend on the early work that would reduce it.
Source: British Psychological SocietyIt does not have to be this way.
Every one of those numbers is a child who waited too long. EdPsych Connect breaks the cycle at its source: effective early intervention, in every teacher’s hands, with the educational psychologist involved early — so most children get what they need without ever entering the statutory system, and the few who genuinely need a plan arrive with the evidence already gathered. The government is now asking every council for a plan to reduce demand. This is that plan — working, not on paper.
More than the statutory process
It raises the floor for every child — long before a statutory route is ever needed.
Most of what a child needs is ordinary teaching, shaped well. EdPsych Connect builds that everyday layer first — so fewer children ever reach the statutory route at all, and those who do arrive with the evidence already gathered.
Differentiated learning, automatically
- One lesson plan in, thirty versions out — each shaped to a child’s working memory, processing speed and attention
- Curriculum content made accessible to every cognitive profile
- A library of 100+ research-backed Tier 1, 2 and 3 interventions — scheduled, assigned and progress-tracked
A companion that guides, never does the work
- A voice-driven Personal Tutor that scaffolds learning — the child stays the agent, not the recipient
- Quests and a motivation layer that make engagement the entry point to learning
- Study Buddy reads disengagement early, before it becomes a gap
Wellbeing and progress, seen early
- Universal wellbeing check-ins surface concern before it becomes crisis
- A coding curriculum from Reception to Year 11, aligned to the National Curriculum
- Teachers reclaim hours from differentiation and evidence capture — time that returns to children
When the statutory route is needed
Six pillars holding up one statutory promise.
When a child does need the statutory route, every workflow on EdPsych Connect cites the law it sits behind. No black boxes. No 'coming soon' inside the product.
Statutory toolkit
- EHCNA intake → draft → finalise → annual review, all timestamped
- SEN2 statutory return composed automatically from your case data
- Tribunal bundle assembler with appeal-rights notice generator
Ask Scott — domain-expert AI
- Trained on Code of Practice 2015 + KCSIE 2025 + DSM-5-TR + ICD-11
- Voice-first; always cites its sources; never invents case law
- Per-user spend caps and tenant-level kill switch built in
Multi-agent EHC drafting
- Section-by-section draft with the right specialist for each part
- Boilerplate verbatim-block manager — quote statute exactly
- Provenance log: which model wrote what, with what evidence
Parent + young-person voice
- Age-appropriate dashboards from EYFS through age 25
- Voice journaling, jargon-translator, your-rights walkthroughs
- Mediation and disagreement-resolution pathways embedded
EP marketplace
- HCPC-registered EPs publishing CPD-evidenced specialisms
- LA framework-compliant booking, escrow, and dispute flow
- Domain-level CPD currency check before any new instruction
Safeguarding-first
- KCSIE 2025 incident reporting baked into every workspace
- Information-sharing engine cites the Article 6/9 ground used
- Audit log is HMAC-signed and tamper-evident
For every audience
Five doors. One platform. The same tribunal-defensible record.
EdPsych Connect is one product, but five experiences — each tuned for the role, the literacy, the urgency and the legal exposure.
The platform that finally translates SEND.
- Plain-English jargon translator for every letter you receive
- Deadlines tracked: 6-week assessment decision, 16 weeks to plan
- Voice notes, draft questions for the next professional meeting
- A complete copy of your child’s record, downloadable any time
The tools you build a private practice around.
- Multi-agent report drafting that respects the Cycle 7 framework
- CPD evidence portfolio aligned to HCPC + BPS standards
- Marketplace bookings, e-signed terms, secure case sharing
- Voice-first dictation tuned to EP register and jargon
Annual review week — and the Ofsted week after — calmer.
- APDR cycle with auto-collated parent and young-person voice
- IEP / Provision Map templates pre-aligned to Section F
- Safeguarding incident form with KCSIE-grade observation guard
- When Ofsted ask for evidence, the bundle is already prepared
ILACS-ready, tribunal-ready, complaint-ready — same record.
- SEN2 return, school census joins, high-needs block analytics
- Information-sharing decisions cite Article 6/9 + DPA Sch 1
- Local Area SEND inspection (Ofsted + CQC) evidence trail intact
- EHCP transfer between LAs without re-keying a single field
Your plan. Your voice. Your record.
- Age-appropriate dashboards from primary through to post-16
- Voice diary that survives a school move and an LA transfer
- Walkthroughs of your right to attend your own annual review
- Mental-health signposting that respects Gillick competence
What makes us different
Built by the practitioners who have to stand behind it.
Built by an EP
Designed and led by a practising Chartered, HCPC-registered Educational Psychologist with 16 years across LA, school and tribunal work.
Inspection-ready by default
When Ofsted, the SEND Tribunal or a Local Area SEND inspection asks, your evidence is already organised. Statute-anchored, time-stamped, exportable.
Voice-first · WCAG 2.2 AA
Voice input and voice output through every workflow. Accessibility-grade-AAA targeted on the parent and young-person surfaces.
UK-resident · GDPR by design
Data hosted in lhr1, transit-encrypted, audit-logged. Special-category data gated by an Article 9(2) decision engine.
The adoption blocker, solved
Your children’s data never has to leave your control.
The real reason SEND tools stall is trust: no Local Authority, school or educational psychologist wants their children’s records locked inside someone else’s database. So we built for the opposite. With Bring-Your-Own-Data, your records live in your own database — your infrastructure, your region, your retention rules — connected over strictly-verified TLS using your own certificate authority. You keep sovereignty; you can export everything and walk away at any time. We are the tool, never the owner of your data.
Your database
Connect your own PostgreSQL or MySQL. Your records are stored in your infrastructure, in your region — never pooled with anyone else’s.
Verified encryption
Connections use strict TLS (verify-full) with your own certificate authority — not a shared certificate, not a trust-us promise.
No lock-in
Export everything, at any time. The data is yours; if you ever leave, you take it with you in full.
Note from the founder
For sixteen years I have watched parents lose months of their child’s education to a system that cannot find its own paperwork, watched schools fight to draft Section F without the EP advice that should have arrived twelve weeks ago, and watched Local Authority colleagues hand-count SEN2 returns the night before submission.
EdPsych Connect is built so that the law on the page becomes the workflow on the screen. The aim is simple: when Ofsted, the SEND Tribunal, or a Local Area SEND inspection asks the difficult question, the answer is already on file — accurate, dated, and attributable. Not a pivot from another sector. Not an adjacent CRM dressed up in education colours. A platform built on the principles I teach my trainees, by the practitioner who still stands at tribunal.
— Dr Scott I-Patrick CPsychol, Chartered, HCPC-registered Educational Psychologist & Founder
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