Brian O'Connell
Education, Health and Care Plan

Brian O'Connell

Age 20 Post-16 (16–25) Transition
You are reading as

SENCo

You see 8 of 9 sections. A and E are written for you. D is held back.

A record A written for you A held back · which sections, never what they say

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I

Brian is an avatar. The plan around him is illustrative; the education he describes in Section A is his own.The plan has run ten years and is proposed for cease. Two sections of his own record still have to reach him, and that happens tomorrow.

Section A — Views, interests and aspirations

ehc-cyp-voicerecorded 2026-10-09

Brian, in his own words, recorded at his review on 2026-09-08 and written down as he said it: "My name is Brian. I'm twenty. I didn't take the usual school route. I homeschooled myself, sat the GED instead of the regular Thai exams, got into Payap University, and then into Chiang Mai University. I'm reading economics at CMU — how markets work, how value moves, who gets left out when the system is opaque. What pulled me further in is the layer under the apps: blockchain, and what people call the next generation of the web — the one built so agents can act, settle, and hand work to each other without a person disappearing at every handover. I want to understand that stack the way I understand a balance sheet: incentives, settlement, identity, and who holds the keys. Economics gave me the questions; this is where I think a lot of the answers are moving. I'm Brian. I'm studying economics at Chiang Mai University. Here is the story of my education, health and care." Brian convened this review himself and gave this statement first.

Qualifying need

Social, emotional and mental health needs affecting attendance and access to learning — the need that qualified him at ten. At twenty the council's view is that he no longer requires special educational provision to be maintained by a plan (CFA 2014 s.45), having regard to outcomes that have been achieved. The plan is proposed for cease, with the right of appeal to the SEND Tribunal.

Not waiting for the plan

Every other outcome is gated on the final plan. These are not. A person arranges this. Nothing is ordered automatically.

  • E1 Brian holds his own complete copy of his record before the plan is ceased. — tomorrow
Statutory path

Stage Transition · every date on one page

Walk the journey, stage by stage →

Evidence locker

35 evidence references cited across 6 of 9 sections.

Meeting readiness

Quorum Quorate
On the case

What was said about it afterwards

Not part of the statutory plan. Kept with it because a record that holds only what professionals wrote down is missing most of what happened.

Tony

Dad

2026-09-16

He used to play football. Before his leg, that is what he did — barefoot on the sand, a ball at his feet, every day it was not raining. Afterwards he was at home in bed a lot, and he played games instead. One day I found a run of Apple payments on my card. It was connected to his iPad. Robux: four lots of 800, ฿349 each time. I asked him what he had spent them on. One of them was a hat. So I asked him what the hat does — does it give you some kind of magical powers? He said: “No. Just a hat.” I was not angry. Apple gave the money back, and he still got to keep what he had bought. And I understood it later than I should have. On that platform the avatar is how you are seen, and being seen is how you have friends. He made friends there he kept for life.

Tony

Dad

2026-09-16

I was homeschooling him for a while. Everything was very free and experimental. He told me what he was interested in and I showed him where to find learning activities he could undertake. He chose the direction he took by himself. There were no rules except that he had to read books and watch videos, and every day he had to write down what he learned. He read at the beach, mostly. Learning and thinking about the world. One day this is what he wrote down. It is in the locker now, in his handwriting: how to calm your mind, how to train it, how to have an extraordinary one. How to make a dent in the universe. The true meaning of god. How to break free of a rule that holds you back. He was maybe eleven.

Brian

The young person — this is his plan

undated

Recalled by Tony, not written by Brian. The words “No. Just a hat.” are his, exactly as he said them; nothing else here is a quotation.

“No. Just a hat.”

From the inside out

Everyone around me

3 of the ten readings take in every section of this plan as the professional record. Brian reads 7 of 9; 2 sections are held back from him.

Each row is one way of reading this plan and each square is one section — A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I. The squares say whether that reading gets the professional record, a version written for that reader, or nothing at all. They never show what is in a section, including the ones held back from Brian.

The child's voice — this is you

5 of 9 as the record · 2 held back

Read it this way
A E I B C D F G H

Parent or carer

6 of 9 as the record · 1 held back

Read it this way
A B E F H C D G I

Plain words

7 of 9 as the record · 2 held back

Read it this way
A E B C D F G H I

Sections C and D are held back from Brian's own reading. The plan says why on the page where they appear, and it is his to ask for.

Everyone around me, in full — who they are and what they owe him

Custody

Who holds each part of Brian's plan

9 sections · 6 custodians · 3 with nothing behind them

The sections in statutory order, A first — the child's own words open the plan. Each row names the role accountable for it and how many pieces of evidence are filed against it.

3 of 9 sections have no evidence recorded behind them. Their rings are empty because nothing has been filed, not because this page could not find it.

A

Views, interests and aspirations

The child or young person 10 evidence items edited 8 days ago

B

The child or young person's special educational needs

The school's SENCo 11 evidence items edited 31 days ago

C

Health needs relating to SEN

A named clinician 7 evidence items edited 31 days ago

D

Social care needs relating to SEN

The allocated social worker 1 evidence item edited 36 days ago

E

Outcomes

The named keyworker nothing evidenced edited 35 days ago

F

Special educational provision

The school's SENCo nothing evidenced edited 35 days ago

G

Health provision

A named clinician 5 evidence items edited 31 days ago

H

Social care provision

The allocated social worker nothing evidenced edited 35 days ago

I

Placement

The local authority caseworker 1 evidence item edited 35 days ago

The meeting

5 of 5 seats filled — quorate

  1. The child's voice Present
  2. Parents Present
  3. SENCo Present
  4. Health Present
  5. Local authority Present

Who is around Brian's plan

Role views change how the plan is worded, not who can read it. Discussion opened from this page is tagged education.