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IYC Toolkits

Practical tools for working through the problem.

Not filler blog posts. These are working tools: understand the decision, organise the evidence, prepare the next step and keep control of what happens afterwards.

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Use what helps. Ignore what does not.

You do not need to complete every box before asking for help. These tools are designed to reduce the load, not create homework. They do not replace specialist legal or clinical advice where that is needed.

Build your case

Make the information usable.

Evidence

Evidence organiser & proof builder

Classify evidence, build an index, identify gaps and test how strongly each item supports the issue.

Open evidence organiser →
Chronology

Chronology & decision log

Separate events, decisions, deadlines, conflicting records and turning points.

Open chronology & decision log →
Professional evidence

Professional evidence builder

Ask the right professional for the facts and opinion they are actually qualified to provide.

Open professional evidence builder →
Meetings

Meeting preparation & action tracker

Go in with priorities and leave with decisions, owners and dates rather than another cloud of words.

Open SEND meeting preparation & action tracker →
Deadlines

Case deadline & decision tracker

Keep important dates visible and record where each deadline came from and who owns the action.

Open case deadline & decision tracker →

SEND & school

Work through education-access and EHCP problems.

School access

Reduced timetable & school access toolkit

Pin down why the timetable exists, what support surrounds it, review dates and the route back to full-time education.

Open reduced timetable & school access toolkit →
EHC assessment

EHC needs assessment toolkit

Map needs, evidence, professional advice and the 6/16/20-week milestones.

Open EHC needs assessment toolkit →
EHCP

EHCP quality checker

Check Sections A–K, map needs to provision, spot ambiguous wording and prepare draft-plan comments.

Open EHCP quality checker →

NHS & neurodevelopmental

Work out where the pathway is actually stuck.

Referral pathway

Neurodevelopmental referral & waiting-list toolkit

Separate administrative waiting-list issues from individual clinical decisions and map the evidence and decision-maker.

Open neurodevelopmental referral & waiting-list toolkit →
Patient choice

Right to Choose referral checklist

Check referral route, provider/service, clinical appropriateness, exceptions, status and where the blockage sits.

Open Right to Choose referral checklist →

Communicate & challenge

Make the organisation answer the actual question.

Complaints

Complaint planner & response checker

Build numbered issues, evidence and outcomes — then test whether the final response investigated and answered them.

Open complaint planner & response checker →

Need more than a worksheet?

The resource is not the service.

If the problem is still difficult to untangle, parents and carers in Kent & Medway can ask whether In Your Corner has scope and capacity to help.

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