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The right support given early enough can make a huge difference to a child’s ability to achieve. With around four in 10 children having SEND at some point during their life, a new system was introduced in 2014 to do just that. Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans, brought in as part of the Children and Families Act, are designed to be more aspirational than the statements they replace. They focus on what help the child or young person needs from everyone around them to achieve their goals. In 2016, just over 9,000 children under five had an EHC plan.
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