Prepared pack route · 6 of 12
Cease to maintain — we prepare this appeal pack
If the council proposes or has decided to end your child's EHCP, match this route below. We prepare your SEND35A appeal pack. You review it. You send it.
If you receive a proposal to cease: you usually have at least 15 days to make representations. If the LA then decides to cease, appeal within 2 months of the decision letter (or later of that / 1 month from mediation certificate). Contact a mediation adviser before SEND35A.
From £249 · you review before you send · not legal advice
Use this page as advice. If you want us to prepare the pack, match your situation or go to pricing — from what you already have.
What is your EHCP situation?
Tell us where you are. We match the document you need to send, then an assigned case professional prepares it. You review it. You send it.
I want to challenge a refusal or EHCP decision
Continues to your pack match — about 60 seconds.
What we prepare for this
Challenge to the plan · £449
Grounds or a letter when the plan, placement, provision or timescales are wrong.
- The document you send
- How to send it, and what to attach
- One revision round of factual corrections
One case professional prepares and checks it. You review it. You send it.
Typically 5 working days after we have what we need.
Other documents: request letter £249 · appeal grounds £349 · challenge to the plan £449
The local authority has decided to cease to maintain my child's EHC plan. Under section 45 of the Children and Families Act 2014, an authority may cease only if it is no longer responsible for the child or it determines that it is no longer necessary for the plan to be maintained.…
This situation maps to
Appeal: council ceasing to maintain EHCP
One of 12 EHCP routes we prepare — match above, then we draft the pack.
What we prepare
We prepare this pack for your route
Your pack includes the information required for a cease-to-maintain appeal — ongoing needs, impact if the plan ends, and how to address common LA arguments.
Draft wording for this route
SEND35A grounds and ongoing-needs summary focused on why special educational provision remains necessary.
Common council responses
Mapped cessation reasons — and how to address them with evidence of ongoing need.
Relevant SEND law
Children and Families Act 2014, s.45 — an LA may cease to maintain a plan only if it is no longer responsible for the child/young person, or it determines that it is no longer necessary for the plan to be maintained (including where the SEP specified is no longer required).
Example excerpt
Sample grounds wording for this route
Illustrative only. Your pack is prepared for your child's situation — you review it before you send.
The local authority has decided to cease to maintain my child's EHC plan. Under section 45 of the Children and Families Act 2014, an authority may cease only if it is no longer responsible for the child or it determines that it is no longer necessary for the plan to be maintained. Needs remain present and the special educational provision specified in the plan continues to be required. Ending the plan would remove enforceable support that professionals and school records show is still necessary.
- SEND35A grounds, written by a case professional
- Ongoing needs summary
- Council-response matching and SEND law
- How to lodge and what to attach