The EHCP process matters. So does everything that happens around it. For many children in foster care, the day-to-day reality of school is shaped less by what a plan says and more by whether the adults around them understand their needs, communicate well, and act quickly when something goes wrong.
We work alongside carers and agencies across the full life of a placement before a child arrives, through the settling-in period, and for as long as the placement continues.
Pre-placement educational review
Before a child moves to a new placement, we review their educational documentation and produce a written summary of where they are. What their current needs are, what provision is in place, what the school needs to know from day one, and where the gaps are.
This gives the carer and the receiving school a clear starting point rather than weeks of catch-up.
EHCP continuity
When a child moves placement, their EHCP does not automatically follow them. The receiving local authority has statutory responsibilities, but in practice those responsibilities are not always met without someone keeping track.
We monitor the process, make sure the receiving authority is engaged, check that statutory timescales are being met, and pick up the phone when they are not.
School interface
The relationship between a foster carer and a school is not always straightforward. Carers are not always treated as equal partners in a child’s education. Schools do not always understand the looked after children context. Reviews happen without proper preparation. Concerns get raised informally and then quietly forgotten.
We support carers in their communication with schools, preparing for reviews and meetings, attending where that is helpful, and following up in writing so that what is agreed is recorded clearly.
Placement stability
Unmet educational need is one of the most common and least visible contributors to placement breakdown. When a child is struggling at school and nobody is addressing why, that stress comes home with them. It affects the placement.
Where unmet need is creating instability, we work with the carer and the agency to identify what needs to change and support the steps needed to change it.
The carer support service
Agencies can commission BTT as a named support resource for their carers. Carers get a direct route to expert advice across consultation, document review, meeting attendance, and correspondence without having to navigate a referral process every time something comes up.
It is the difference between carers knowing help is there if they need it and carers trying to find help at the point of crisis.
Pricing is bespoke and built around the size of the agency’s caseload and the level of access that makes sense.