Yorkshire and the Humber
EHCP Support in North Lincolnshire: Deadlines, Performance & Local Help
20-week EHCP timeliness — 2024 data
North Lincolnshire issued 18.6% of new EHCPs within the statutory 20-week deadline in 2024. That is below the national average of 46.4% — by 27.8 percentage points.
Based on 188 new EHC plans issued by North Lincolnshire in 2024.
In plain English: if you applied for an EHCP in North Lincolnshire this year, statistically around 19 in every 100 families received their plan on time. The remaining 81 in 100 waited longer than the law allows. A missed deadline does not weaken your rights — the council still has the same legal duty to issue the plan, and you have routes to challenge delay.
Source: DfE — Education, health and care plans, England (annual statistics). Data year: 2024.
Council & Local Offer
SEN team contact
Local SENDIASS — free, impartial advice in North Lincolnshire
SENDIASS (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information, Advice and Support Service) is a free, statutory and impartial service for parents, carers and young people.
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How to request an EHCP assessment
Anyone — a parent, the young person (16+), or someone acting on their behalf (school, GP) — can ask North Lincolnshire for an Education, Health and Care needs assessment. The request is a short written letter or email to the SEN team explaining why your child may need provision beyond what is normally available in school.
The council has 6 weeks to decide whether to assess. If they agree, the full process to issue a final plan must complete within 20 weeks of your original request.
When deadlines are missed
If North Lincolnshire misses the 6-week assessment decision or the 20-week final plan deadline, you have clear options: chase in writing, escalate to the council's complaints process, complain to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, or apply for judicial review in serious cases. Exemptions are narrow and listed in Regulation 13(3) of the SEND Regulations 2014.
Tools & templates
- Deadline tracker — log the date you submitted your request and we'll show your statutory milestones.
- Letter templates — request an assessment, chase a missed deadline, challenge a refusal.
- How to challenge an EHCP refusal
- What Section F of an EHCP must legally contain
Information, not legal advice. Statistics on this page are taken from the DfE annual EHCP dataset for 2024. Always check the primary source for the most recent figures.