Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) AI Pilot

wing statutory Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) workload, with over 8,000 active plans requiring maintenance and annual review, alongside approximately 160 new referrals per month for assessment. Performance against the 20‑week statutory timescale remains poor, with a substantial backlog of as

sessments and limited capacity within casework teams to meet demand through existing ways of working. EHCP drafting is a highly manual, time intensive process, typically requiring up to one working day per case which contributes directly t