Education Law specialist Update emphasises the importance of social care law angles being taken in SEN legal cases. An Education Law specialist will say that many parents worry about the involvement of social care in their child cases. Yet when providing support for a child with special educational needs social care do have a part to play. Parents often worry that by calling social care to help them is an indication that they cannot cope and fear that they may be criticised. However Sen Law requires social care involvement.In England Education and Health Care plans EHCPs , should include the views of social care assessors. It provides a vital dimension to a case and aids the proper determination of a child's special educational needs. The Education Law is also going to change in Wales, and we must await the new Bill to become law before we have further details. However in both England and Wales the law pertaining to social care and supporting families with children with SEN is still very similar. Social care can recommended residential schooling or college. It might also recommend support for the family and for those carers who look after a disabled child or adult. It is often a mistake to consider that when a social services department speaks it does so on behalf of the local authority - and it is the local authority as a whole that the law regards as having responsibilities to a disabled child. Education law specialist team at Sinclairslaw regularly provide update seminars to families and to schools around England and Wales and information in relation to these, are available on our website under the Education Law section.