Section C and G: getting health needs and health provision into the plan

Health needs are described in Section C and health provision in Section G. But there is a crucial rule: health provision that educates or trains a child is treated as special educational provision (Children and Families Act 2014, s.44) — which means it belongs in Section F, where the council's duty to secure it is enforceable.

Typical examples

• Speech and language therapy that develops communication for learning → Section F (and often also G).
• Occupational therapy for handwriting and classroom access → Section F.
• Physiotherapy exercises needed to access the school day → Section F.
• Clinical treatment of a medical condition → Section G.

The common gap

A draft will list a therapy need in Section C, mention it briefly in G — and leave it out of F entirely. That means the provision is not enforceable through the EHCP. In your response, ask: "Please add this health provision to Section F (with type, frequency and duration), or confirm in writing whether the council considers it educates or trains."

Who pays?

Normally the Integrated Care Board (ICB) commissions health provision in G, but placement in F does not change who commissions it — it changes how enforceable it is. Ask which is which, in writing.

The checker compares therapies mentioned in C and G against Section F and flags the ones missing from F.