Bring learner strengths, needs, outcomes, reasonable adjustments, classroom strategies, provision, responsibilities and review dates into one connected support-planning workflow.
EdiWay helps SENCOs, teachers, families, learners and authorised professionals work around a clearer plan - while keeping SEND identification, statutory decisions and professional judgement with appropriately authorised people.
Useful support planning begins with evidence. That evidence may come from academic assessment, classroom observations, educational screening, learner voice, family contributions or authorised professional input.
EdiWay helps schools organise what happens after that evidence has been reviewed.
Bring together appropriate strengths, barriers and relevant educational evidence.
Define what the school and learner are working towards.
Record strategies, adjustments, provision and responsibilities.
Make appropriate information available to the staff expected to act on it.
Consider what was delivered, what changed and what the learner says about the support.
Revise the plan without losing the history behind earlier decisions.
The platform supports the process around professional decision-making. It does not make the SEND decision on behalf of the school.
EdiWay can support an Assess, Plan, Do, Review-style graduated approach by keeping evidence, agreed actions and review history within the learner journey.
Understand the learner’s strengths, barriers and current educational context.
Agree outcomes, strategies, provision, responsibilities and a review point.
Make the agreed support available to the people responsible for delivering it.
Consider current evidence and whether the support remains appropriate.
Record the authorised next step. Each stage should answer a different question.
The Assess stage should help the responsible school team understand the learner before deciding what support to put in place.
Keep capabilities, interests and successful approaches visible.
Connect relevant attainment and progress information.
Include appropriate classroom evidence.
Ask what the learner finds helpful, difficult or important.
Ask what the learner finds helpful, difficult or important.
Include relevant knowledge from home.
Identify what has already been tried.
Consider relevant permitted school context without assuming cause.
Include authorised external contributions where a defined relationship exists.
Make gaps and uncertainty visible.
Assessment within the graduated approach is educational evidence gathering and review. It should not be confused with clinical diagnosis.
Once evidence has been reviewed, the plan should explain what the school intends to do and why.
Describe the educational issue being addressed.
Keep the learner’s capabilities central to the plan.
Define the intended educational change or improvement.
Record the teaching or support approaches agreed.
Maintain appropriate adjustments to environment, communication, learning or participation.
Describe the support the school intends to provide.
Record how often relevant support is expected where appropriate.
Identify who is expected to deliver or coordinate each action.
Include the learner’s view and priorities.
Record relevant parent and carer input.
Agree when the plan will be reconsidered. A useful plan should make it possible for authorised staff to understand:
A support plan only becomes meaningful when the people responsible for delivery can understand what has been agreed.
Make approved teaching strategies available to relevant staff.
Surface current adjustments in the appropriate teaching context.
Connect agreed support to the responsible team.
Link useful learning or support material where appropriate.
Make ownership clear.
Keep agreed learner actions visible where suitable.
Record appropriate agreed family activity without turning parents and carers into school staff.
Connect relevant work from authorised practitioners.
Move structured programmes of support into the dedicated intervention workflow where required.
The support plan defines the agreed response. Detailed intervention sessions, delivery and impact review belong within Intervention Support and Impact Review.
Review should bring together current evidence rather than automatically conclude that a plan has succeeded or failed.
Consider evidence against the intended outcome.
Ask whether the learner feels the support is useful.
Review current classroom experience.
Consider relevant parent and carer observations.
Check whether the agreed support actually took place.
Use appropriate information from structured interventions.
Review relevant attainment evidence where meaningful.
Consider suitable contextual information.
Include current authorised professional evidence.
Make incomplete delivery or review information visible.
Allow the authorised team to agree the next step.
Review may result in support continuing, changing, reducing, increasing or moving into another authorised process. The platform should not make that decision automatically.
A learner’s school support plan should provide a practical view of the support currently agreed.
Connect strengths, communication preferences and current educational context.
Record the relevant educational needs or barriers being addressed.
Define what the support is intended to help the learner achieve.
Describe what staff should do.
Maintain agreed reasonable adjustments.
Record the support planned by the school.
Identify ownership.
Keep the next review point visible.
Include the learner’s perspective.
Preserve appropriate parent and carer contributions.
Connect authorised recommendations without erasing their source.
Retain earlier plans and reviews.
A support plan should show the current approved position without silently deleting how the school arrived there.
Provision mapping can help schools understand the support being made available to learners and groups.
EdiWay can connect provision to the relevant learner, purpose, staff responsibility and review context.
Describe the support being provided.
Explain which educational outcome or barrier it relates to.
Identify who the provision is for.
Record who coordinates or delivers it.
Maintain an appropriate planned delivery pattern.
Record the relevant support period where applicable.
Identify whether provision takes place in class, individually, in a group or another configured context.
Make the provision time-aware.
Connect it to the learner’s intended support outcome.
Link appropriate review information.
Provision mapping should make support clearer. It should not turn every learner receiving additional classroom help into a formal SEND conclusion.
Schools may provide support at different levels and through different educational approaches. Where configured, EdiWay can help distinguish those contexts.
Record strategies available as part of ordinary teaching and inclusion.
Maintain learner-specific agreed changes where appropriate.
Record additional support for an identified educational purpose.
Connect support to a defined group where appropriate.
Maintain learner-specific support.
Connect approved professional recommendations.
Move programme-based support into the intervention workflow.
Keep school-held EHC plan provision appropriately connected to the separate EHC evidence workflow.
The support level should reflect the school’s reviewed educational process rather than an automatic platform classification.
Where the school has agreed a reasonable adjustment, the people responsible for supporting the learner need to know what is expected.
Describe the practical change.
Record the educational or participation barrier being addressed.
Identify where the adjustment applies.
Keep the effective period clear.
Set an appropriate point for reconsideration.
Make delivery ownership visible.
Include relevant learner feedback.
Connect suitable supporting information.
Distinguish current, reviewed and historical adjustments.
Make relevant information available to authorised teaching staff.
Keep underlying specialist information restricted where appropriate.
EdiWay can organise agreed adjustments. It does not independently determine what adjustment is legally required in an individual case.
Teachers should not have to read a complete SEND case history to understand how to support a learner in the classroom.
The provision plan can surface approved strategies such as:
How should information or instructions be presented?
Does the learner benefit from additional time before responding?
Should activities be broken into smaller stages?
Are prompts, models or visual routines helpful?
Are there agreed environmental considerations?
What helps the learner move between activities?
Which prompts or structures support independence?
What teaching approaches support access to written information?
Are there agreed alternatives or adjustments?
What approved strategies help the learner participate?
Teachers need actionable strategies. They do not automatically need confidential diagnostic, medical or professional evidence behind every strategy.
A provision plan becomes easier to review when the intended outcome is clear.
Describe the change from the learner’s perspective where appropriate.
Keep the outcome connected to learning, participation, communication, independence or another relevant goal.
Record suitable evidence describing the current position.
Explain what evidence may show progress.
Set a realistic timeframe.
Identify who will contribute to the outcome.
Include what matters to the learner.
Preserve relevant parent and carer priorities.
Connect authorised specialist recommendations where useful.
Use later information to support human judgement.
An outcome should guide support. It should not become a rigid prediction about what the learner must achieve.
Some outcomes may require smaller, reviewable steps.
Start from the evidence available now.
Describe a clear educational next step.
Explain what staff will look for.
Connect the target to appropriate teaching or support.
Make ownership visible.
What helps the learner move between activities?
Set the next review point.
Connect appropriate classroom or intervention information.
Include the learner’s own view where suitable.
Record what was observed at review.
Targets should support the learner’s progress. They should not automatically become proof that provision has succeeded or failed.
Every significant action in a support plan should have an appropriate owner.
Coordinate the wider school SEND process where appropriate.
Apply relevant classroom strategies and contribute evidence.
Deliver assigned support within the defined role.
Complete appropriate support activity where relevant.
Coordinate structured intervention delivery.
Provide authorised oversight where required.
Contribute agreed family actions without being treated as a school employee.
Participate in suitable actions and reviews.
Contribute defined specialist work or evidence.
Responsibility should describe who is expected to act. It should not provide broader access than that person requires.
Where configured, schools may need to understand the resource context around SEND provision.
Identify the relevant support.
Record appropriate delivery context where supported.
Understand the planned pattern.
Maintain the relevant time period.
Keep individual and group delivery distinguishable.
Connect suitable school-held cost information where available.
Consider cost alongside delivery and learner evidence.
Allow authorised users to review provision-resource information.
Cost can help schools understand resource deployment. It should not decide whether a learner deserves support or whether provision is educationally appropriate.
Support plans change over time. The learner journey should preserve what the school understood and agreed at each point.
Retain appropriate earlier versions.
Keep the historical time context.
Preserve the outcomes that applied during that period.
Record which support was current at the time.
Maintain the historical provision context.
Preserve who participated in the review.
Keep suitable supporting information.
Record why support continued or changed where appropriate.
Make clear that an earlier strategy is no longer current.
Historical plans provide useful context. They should not continue appearing as current classroom instructions after they have been replaced.
Schools may maintain a current SEND or SEN-support status as part of their learner records. EdiWay can help authorised users keep that information connected to the wider support journey.
Maintain the school’s authorised current record.
Record appropriate school-held educational categories where required.
Preserve when the status became applicable.
Connect status to the relevant human-led school process.
Maintain the appropriate evidence separately.
Preserve earlier school-held context.
Record an authorised update without rewriting historical information.
Limit status management to appropriate roles.
Completing an educational screening, creating a target or assigning an intervention should not automatically change a learner’s SEND status.
Where schools maintain areas-of-need information, EdiWay can connect that classification to a broader strengths-based learner record.
Maintain relevant school-held educational context.
Support the school’s appropriate recording structure where configured.
Connect authorised educational support context.
Maintain relevant school-held support information.
Record appropriate learning-related information.
Keep learner capabilities visible alongside need information.
Connect practical classroom support.
Link relevant agreed support.
Allow authorised staff to reconsider the current school-held record.
An area-of-need category can help organise support. It should not replace the learner’s individual evidence or professional judgement.
Where appropriate, the learner should be able to contribute to their own support planning.
What does the learner feel is going well?
What barriers do they want adults to understand?
Which strategies or environments work best for them?
What would they like to achieve?
How do they prefer adults to involve them?
Which adjustments do they find useful?
Do they feel the current plan is helping?
What matters most to them now?
Learner voice should be gathered in a way appropriate to age, communication, capacity and context.
Parents and carers may hold important information about the learner’s strengths, challenges, communication, sensory context and experience outside school.
EdiWay can provide controlled routes for that contribution.
Invite relevant observations.
Record what families see working well.
Capture family concerns and aspirations.
Include approaches that appear helpful at home.
Invite contributions before an APDR-style review.
Allow appropriate supporting information where enabled.
Record relevant family actions separately from school responsibilities.
Share approved support-plan information.
Capture the family’s view of current support.
Keep family evidence clearly attributed.
Family participation strengthens the review. A parent or carer contribution does not automatically become the school’s professional judgement.
Connect the practitioner to the appropriate learner and purpose.
Preserve the source of reports and observations.
Record relevant advice for authorised school review.
Use appropriate professional input when considering learner outcomes.
Translate approved recommendations into classroom-useful information.
Connect relevant review activity where enabled.
Record follow-up responsibility.
Review professional access when involvement ends.
Keep the school’s authorised support-plan decision distinct from the professional’s original contribution.
Professional advice can inform a plan. It should not silently rewrite the school record.
Review meetings often generate actions, new evidence and updated decisions. EdiWay can help connect that activity to the learner’s support record.
Make clear which plan or review is being discussed.
Record appropriate attendees.
Include the learner where appropriate.
Record relevant family involvement.
Connect authorised practitioners.
Identify the information considered.
Record the authorised outcome of the meeting.
Assign follow-up activity.
Keep review actions time-aware.
Connect agreed changes to the next support plan version.
Meeting notes support the process. They do not replace the approved support plan.
Some provisions consist of a structured intervention with planned sessions, assigned staff, and measurable review points.
That deeper delivery workflow belongs in Intervention Support and Impact Review.
Explains why the support is required.
Defines what the school hopes to achieve.
Identifies the structured support being used.
Records a relevant starting position.
Belongs to the intervention workflow.
Belong to the intervention workflow.
Shows what actually took place.
Considers later evidence.
Uses the intervention evidence when deciding what happens next.
The support plan and intervention should connect. They should not become duplicate records.
The two concepts are related but different.
Describes the support the learner is expected to receive.
A structured programme or activity used to deliver part of that support.
Asks whether the learner’s overall support remains appropriate.
Asks what was delivered and what evidence is available afterwards.
Coordinates the learner’s wider support.
Coordinates the specific programme.
Can flow between the two through authorised review.
Can flow between the two through authorised review.
Remains subject to human interpretation.
An intervention ending does not automatically end a learner’s wider support plan.
Academic assessment may help staff understand learning progress and identify areas requiring additional support.
Connect relevant assessment evidence.
Review appropriate academic history.
Include relevant professional context.
Describe what is being observed.
Connect academic evidence to an educational goal where appropriate.
Use future assessment as one part of the evidence.
Make missing or incomparable assessment information visible.
Keep the decision with authorised staff.
A low assessment result does not automatically mean SEND. A high result does not rule SEND out.
Reviewed educational profiles may contribute evidence to support planning.
Use relevant reviewed educational indicators.
Connect appropriate communication needs and strategies.
Include approved environmental support information.
Use teacher observations appropriately.
Bring strengths into the support plan.
Preserve relevant family contributions.
Connect authorised specialist input.
Translate reviewed evidence into practical actions.
Consider later evidence before deciding whether support should change.
Screening evidence can inform planning. It should not automatically create the plan.
Some learners receiving school SEND support may also have an EHC plan.
EdiWay can connect relevant school-held provision and outcome information without treating the school support plan as the statutory plan itself.
Records the school’s current educational support workflow.
Maintains appropriate school-held statutory-plan information.
Connect relevant educational outcomes where authorised.
Keep EHC plan provision identifiable from school-added support.
Use the dedicated review workflow.
Connect suitable contributions.
Preserve source and authority.
Remain with the responsible local authority and authorised process.
EdiWay does not issue, amend or determine entitlement to an EHC plan.
Wellbeing or pastoral evidence may be relevant to SEND planning. That does not mean every pastoral record belongs inside the SEND plan.
Keep SEND support focused on the learner’s educational participation and needs.
Use relevant permitted information where it supports review.
Maintain the detailed pastoral record in its own workflow.
Connect appropriate educational context without turning school evidence into clinical diagnosis.
Include relevant learner experience.
Use approved family information.
Keep safeguarding concerns and chronology separately controlled.
Allow authorised staff to consider the wider context.
Connected support should reduce fragmentation without collapsing different professional responsibilities into one record.
A learner may have both SEND and safeguarding needs. Those information domains require different purposes and permissions.
Supports educational provision and review.
Belongs within the controlled safeguarding workflow.
Can be shared with appropriate teaching staff.
Remains restricted to authorised safeguarding users.
Requires the appropriate human-led safeguarding process.
Should remain proportionate to purpose.
Keep safeguarding decisions with trained authorised staff.
A SEND need does not establish a safeguarding concern. A safeguarding concern does not automatically establish SEND.
A learner’s support needs may continue when they move class, phase or setting.
The plan should support continuity without assuming every earlier strategy remains current forever.
Make current approved strategies available to responsible staff.
Review outcomes and support before simply copying the previous plan.
Prepare appropriate reviewed transition information.
Connect support with learner aspirations and progression.
Select appropriate evidence for the receiving setting.
Maintain the responsible-school and placement context.
Keep relevant support connected to the appropriate pathway.
Support movement towards learner-controlled continuity where enabled.
Reconsider family, staff and professional permissions when relationships change.
A plan can look complete while important information is missing. EdiWay can help authorised staff identify gaps.
Show when support has no clearly defined intended result.
Identify actions without an owner.
Surface plans without a future review point.
Show where delivery information is unclear.
Identify where the learner’s perspective has not yet been captured when appropriate.
Make outstanding requested evidence visible.
Identify plans that need reconsideration.
Surface information that may no longer be current.
Keep differences between sources visible.
Preserve uncertainty rather than converting it into a definitive answer.
Completing every field is not the same as providing appropriate support. Data quality helps authorised people ask better questions.
Support can drift when review dates and responsibilities are hidden across separate documents. EdiWay can help authorised users identify:
Plans approaching their review point.
Plans requiring authorised attention.
Tasks that have not been completed.
Information requested but not yet received.
Support activity without a clear owner.
Structured support requiring separate review.
Contributions still awaiting response.
Evidence expected from an authorised practitioner.
Reviews are completed but not yet reflected in the current plan.
Notifications and reminders can support administration. They do not determine the outcome of the review.
Authorised SENCOs and leaders may need to understand the school’s current support activity.
Review an appropriately defined population.
Understand school-held SEND context.
Identify upcoming workload.
Find areas requiring action.
Review planned support by appropriate categories.
Connect to relevant delivery and review information.
Understand the status of reviewed learner outcomes.
Identify incomplete plans or missing evidence.
See where actions remain unassigned or overdue.
Use aggregate information carefully.
Leadership reporting should support better coordination. It should not expose confidential learner information unnecessarily or rank learners by need.
Provision reporting should make the underlying population and time period explicit.
Review support connected to an authorised learner.
Understand the support being planned.
Review appropriately assigned delivery responsibility.
See the planned support pattern.
Keep dates explicit.
Understand which learner outcomes the provision supports.
Link to intervention evidence where relevant.
Identify provision without sufficient context.
Include suitable resource information where configured.
Allow authorised users to inspect the underlying plan.
Provision totals should describe recorded support. They should not imply that more provision automatically means better provision.
Coordinate evidence, plans, provision and review.
Contribute classroom evidence and apply approved strategies.
Access relevant support actions within their assigned role.
Use authorised oversight without assuming access to every sensitive detail.
Contribute relevant support context where appropriate.
Participate through approved family workflows.
Contribute age-appropriate views, goals and feedback.
Provide scoped evidence or recommendations.
SEND information can contain sensitive educational and professional evidence. EdiWay can separate the visibility of the plan from the visibility of its underlying sources.
Keep the record within the appropriate organisation.
Limit access to relevant learners.
Differentiate teaching, SENCO, leadership and support-team permissions.
Allow a user to submit evidence without automatically seeing all other evidence.
Make classroom-useful information available to appropriate teachers.
Restrict plan approval and SEND decisions to authorised users.
Share approved information with the relevant parent or carer relationship.
Limit practitioners to the defined purpose and learner relationship.
Review access as classes, roles and professional relationships change.
Distinguish viewing, contributing, editing, approving and sharing.
Teachers may need the strategy. SENCOs may need the evidence. External professionals may need only the specific information required for their involvement.
Support planning may combine evidence from several people. EdiWay should preserve the origin of that information.
Professional educational evidence created by school staff.
Classroom observations and teaching context.
The learner’s own perspective.
Family-origin observations and priorities.
Information created by authorised external practitioners.
Documents or decisions originating from the responsible statutory body.
Records brought from another system.
Information deliberately shared for a defined purpose.
Connecting evidence should not silently convert a parent observation into a school finding or a professional recommendation into a statutory decision.
Where enabled, EdiWay AI can help authorised users organise permitted evidence into working drafts.
Prepare an initial structure from selected reviewed evidence.
Organise learner strengths and successful strategies.
Prepare a source-aware overview before review.
Help staff phrase possible educational outcomes for human consideration.
Summarise selected permitted evidence.
Prepare clearer draft communication.
Help organise questions, evidence and actions.
Highlight evidence or fields requiring human attention.
Organise approved classroom-support information.
Every AI output remains a draft. An authorised person must review the sources, proposed wording, educational appropriateness and final action.
Bring together appropriate academic, classroom, screening, learner, family and professional information.
Allow authorised staff to consider strengths, barriers and existing support.
Define what the learner and school are working towards.
Record strategies, reasonable adjustments, provision and responsibilities.
Surface appropriate support information to the staff expected to act.
Provide the agreed classroom support or connect structured activity into the intervention workflow.
Bring together learner, teacher, family, assessment and intervention information.
Consider whether the plan remains appropriate.
Record the authorised next step and preserve the earlier plan.
Carry forward only the appropriate current support when the learner’s context changes.
When SEND plans, adjustments and provision sit across spreadsheets, documents, emails and separate specialist systems, schools may need to work out:
EdiWay keeps planning, provision, evidence and review closer to the learner journey while preserving the responsibilities and information boundaries around SEND. The aim is not more paperwork. It is clearer support, clearer ownership and better continuity.
Provision mapping is a structured way to record the support being planned or provided for learners or groups, including its purpose, responsibility, frequency and review context.
EdiWay can connect that information to the learner’s wider support journey.
EdiWay is designed to support APDR-style graduated-approach workflows connecting evidence, planning, delivery and review.
The responsible school staff remain accountable for the educational decisions made through that process.
EdiWay can help authorised staff organise school support plans containing outcomes, strategies, adjustments, provision, responsibilities and review information.
No.
Creating a screening, plan, target or intervention should not automatically determine the learner’s SEND status.
That remains an authorised school decision.
Teachers may see the classroom strategies, adjustments and information relevant to learners they are authorised to support.
They do not automatically need access to every specialist assessment or confidential contribution behind the plan.
Access can be provided according to their current learner and support responsibilities.
It should remain limited to the information required for that role.
Yes.
EdiWay can organise agreed adjustments, purpose, context, responsibility, effective dates and review information.
The platform does not independently determine the legal adjustment required.
Yes.
Learner strengths, goals, preferences, barriers and review feedback can be included through appropriate workflows.
Linked parents and carers can contribute through approved workflows where enabled.
Their contribution should remain separately attributed rather than silently becoming school-authored evidence.
Authorised professionals may provide evidence or recommendations through a defined learner-specific relationship where enabled.
Their access should remain purpose-scoped and revocable.
Appropriate provision-resource or cost context may be maintained where configured.
Cost should support resource understanding rather than determine whether support is appropriate.
Overall provision can be connected to relevant delivery evidence.
Structured intervention sessions and detailed delivery monitoring belong in the dedicated Intervention Support and Impact Review workflow.
No.
Provision describes the support intended for the learner.
An intervention is a structured programme or activity that may deliver part of that provision.
Yes.
Appropriate academic and educational-profile evidence can contribute to authorised support planning.
Assessment information does not diagnose SEND.
No.
Screening can contribute evidence.
An authorised person should decide whether additional support, provision or further review is required.
Relevant school-held EHC plan outcomes and provision can be connected through the dedicated EHC Plan Evidence and Annual Reviews workflow.
EdiWay does not issue or amend an EHC plan.
Yes.
Plans can be reviewed as new classroom, academic, learner, family, intervention or professional evidence becomes available.
Historical support plans and review context can be retained according to permissions and retention requirements.
Earlier plans should remain distinguishable from the current approved plan.
Authorised SEND users can be supported with views of relevant upcoming or overdue review activity where enabled.
No.
The platform can organise delivery and outcome evidence.
The interpretation remains with authorised people.
Where enabled, governed AI can help prepare a working draft from information the authorised user is permitted to access.
The SENCO or other responsible person must review and approve the final plan.
AI may support drafting or consideration where enabled.
It should not autonomously decide which intervention a learner must receive.
No.
EdiWay supports educational evidence, support planning, provision and review.
Diagnosis remains with appropriately qualified professionals where diagnosis is relevant.
No software automatically creates organisational compliance.
Schools remain responsible for statutory duties, policies, professional practice, staff training, decision-making and information governance.
Schools can begin with relevant available support-planning workflows and connect educational profiles, interventions, professional contributions, EHC evidence and wider reporting as implementation develops.
Availability may depend on configuration, permissions, subscription and controlled rollout.
Bring reviewed literacy, communication, sensory and educational evidence into the support conversation.
Make approved adjustments and classroom strategies available to responsible teaching staff.
Connect authorised specialist evidence and recommendations.
See how support planning connects to the wider learner-support ecosystem while preserving safeguarding and wellbeing boundaries.
Invite learner and family participation and share approved support information.
Control SEND evidence, classroom visibility, family participation and professional access.