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.
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 organiser & proof builder
Classify evidence, build an index, identify gaps and test how strongly each item supports the issue.
Open evidence organiser →Chronology & decision log
Separate events, decisions, deadlines, conflicting records and turning points.
Open chronology & decision log →Professional evidence builder
Ask the right professional for the facts and opinion they are actually qualified to provide.
Open professional evidence builder →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 →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.
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 needs assessment toolkit
Map needs, evidence, professional advice and the 6/16/20-week milestones.
Open EHC needs assessment toolkit →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.
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 →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.
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.