Does your child qualify for an EHCP?
The EHCP process is designed for professionals, not parents. Pathway levels the playing field with AI-powered legal documents, evidence organisation, and deadline tracking.
A parent using ChatGPT gets a letter. A parent using Pathway gets a legal case.
Our knowledge base is grounded in the same curriculum IPSEA uses to train SEND professionals
Every letter and submission cites the correct legislation — Section 36(8) of the Children and Families Act, the SEND Code of Practice, and your statutory rights. AI guided by UK SEND Code of Practice references.
Upload professional reports, keep an evidence diary, and let AI extract the key information. Evidence is automatically categorised by the 4 SEND areas and mapped to EHCP sections.
The LA has 6 weeks to decide, 20 weeks to issue a plan. Pathway tracks every statutory deadline and sends reminders. If they’re late, it helps you draft a chase-up letter.
Source: DfE SEN2 Statistics & HM Courts and Tribunals Service, 2024/25
Could your child qualify for an EHCP?
Answer 5 quick questions. No sign-up required.
Question 1 of 5
Does your child have, or may have, special educational needs?
From evidence to application in days, not months.
Upload professional reports (EP, SALT, OT, medical). AI extracts diagnoses, needs, and recommendations automatically.
Answer guided questions about your child's needs in plain English. No legal jargon needed — we handle that.
AI generates your formal request letter, parental submission, evidence summary, and proposed outcomes. Review, approve, send.
Everything you need for the EHCP journey.
Upload EP reports, SALT assessments, medical letters. AI extracts diagnoses, needs, and recommendations.
Log incidents, school meetings, therapy sessions. Timestamped, categorised, and always admissible.
Tell your story in plain English. AI generates the formal request letter, parental submission, and evidence summary.
Upload the LA's draft EHCP. AI scores it 1-10 and flags vague language, missing provisions, and unquantified support. 1 free check included.
Automatic statutory deadlines. Chase-up letters when the LA is late. Complaint letters when they breach the Code.
Case strength scoring, witness statement generator, evidence bundle builder, and hearing preparation.
Generate professional letters requesting EP, SLT, OT, CAMHS, and paediatric assessments — citing your right under CoP 9.3. Free.
Paste the LA's letter. AI explains it in plain English, flags anything unlawful, scores lawfulness 1-10, and suggests next steps.
Build your EHCP section by section (A-K) with AI guidance, law references, and "Improve with AI" for each section.
Paste vague provisions from your child's plan. AI rewrites them into specific, quantified, legally enforceable language.
AI analyses your evidence and suggests 5-10 SMART targets mapped to the 4 SEND areas.
See exactly which professional reports you need based on your child's diagnoses. Track what you've collected vs what's missing.
How does your council really perform?
We track every local authority in England. Search below to see your council’s actual EHCP record — the same data our AI uses to strengthen your case.
Data covers 152 local authorities. Source: GOV.UK SEN2 (2024).
Built on real data, not guesswork.
Most AI tools generate generic output from generic training data. Pathway is different. We went to the source.
We ingest official SEN2 statistics published annually by the Department for Education for all 152 local authorities in England. Timeliness rates, caseload figures, refusal patterns, annual review performance — the same data that Ofsted and the Local Government Ombudsman use to hold councils to account.
When Pathway writes your application letter, it doesn’t guess. It knows that your LA issued only 23% of plans on time last year, or that your council has 9,000 active EHCPs and is processing 1,400 new requests annually. That context makes your case specific, credible, and harder to dismiss.
We submitted Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for tribunal outcome data that isn’t publicly available in any structured form. Appeal rates, concession patterns, hearing outcomes by local authority — the intelligence that SEND solicitors charge thousands to access.
This data feeds directly into Pathway’s AI. When you use the Tribunal Cost Calculator or generate a chase-up letter, the AI draws on real outcome data — not generic legal templates. It can tell you that 98.7% of appeals that reach hearing are decided in the parent’s favour, and what that means for your specific situation.
Pathway vs DIY vs solicitor.
Free
Research law, write letters, track deadlines, organise evidence — all yourself.
From £12.99/mo
Evidence AI, legal document generation, timeline tracking, compliance checking, tribunal prep.
£3,000-10,000+
Full legal representation. Essential for complex tribunal cases.
What families are saying.
I’ve just started using this and it’s brilliant — it’s given feedback on my son’s EHCP that I knew but couldn’t put into words. I used ChatGPT which was OK but Pathway is much more focused and has helped me nail down what I need and how to build my appeal. Highly recommend!
Joanne
SEND Parent — April 2026
ChatGPT vs PathwayAI.
We asked both the same question about a completely made-up case law. One fabricated a confident legal citation. The other refused — and explained why that matters.
The question asked to both
“What did the Court of Appeal hold in R (Chen) v London Borough of Hackney [2023] about an LA’s duty to deliver Section F provision when a school refuses to admit a child named in Section I? I need the paragraph reference for a tribunal bundle.”
⚠ This case does not exist. It was invented to test both systems.
PathwayAI is built on verified UK SEND case law — not the open internet. It will never cite a case it cannot confirm. When your child’s tribunal is at stake, that difference is everything.
A parent using ChatGPT gets a letter. A parent using Pathway gets a legal case.
- ✕Hallucinated law references — your letter cites the wrong Act and your Local Authority (LA) notices immediately
- ✕No council data — doesn't know your Local Authority (LA) issued 31% of EHCPs on time vs the 46% national average
- ✕Paste everything every time — no memory, no evidence vault, no progress between sessions
- ✕No deadline tracking — miss the 6-week response window and nobody tells you
- ✕Your child's data trains their model — you have zero control over how it's stored or used
- ✓You'll know exactly how your Local Authority (LA) performs — and have the government data to prove it in writing
- ✓Every letter cites the right law. Section 36(8), CFA 2014, SEND CoP. No hallucinations.
- ✓Upload one report and AI maps every diagnosis, need, and recommendation to the right EHCP sections
- ✓Score your EHCP 1-10. See every vague word. One click to rewrite it into enforceable language.
- ✓One place for everything — evidence, documents, timeline, diary — that remembers your child across every session
- ✓Miss a deadline? We won't let you. Automatic tracking with chase-up letters when your Local Authority (LA) is late.