EHCP Genie is an AI-powered assistant that helps local authorities draft, review, and quality-assure Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs). It’s built to reduce admin, improve plan quality, and keep professionals firmly in control – ensuring that children’s needs are met with more speed, fairness, and consistency.

No. EHCP Genie supports, but never replaces, human expertise. It works within the usual statutory EHCP process and uses information the local authority collects from the relevant professionals and from the child or young person and their family, as appropriate. The AI arranges this into a first draft only; it does not make decisions. Every draft is fully editable and reviewed by professionals.

This is AI-assisted drafting, not automated decision-making. Councils retain full decision-making responsibility as well as legal and professional responsibility for every EHCP.

Absolutely. EHCP Genie consolidates input from families, teachers, and professionals using strengths-based, neuro-affirming language. The resulting plan is always personalised, ensuring the child or young person and their family’s aspirations and needs, and remain central.

No – in fact, over 80% of EHCP work is not new plans. EHCP Genie has been developed to support existing plans, including reviews and phase transfers, as well as initial plan drafting.

Yes. EHCP Genie streamlines updates and redrafts with smart prompts and quality checks that reduce admin time and help professionals update plans accurately and efficiently.

Yes. EHCP Genie is designed to improve plan quality and compliance with the SEND Code of Practice. It flags missing or vague sections and prompts for clear, specific, and quantified wording before finalisation, making plans more robust and easier to agree. While this can reduce the likelihood of disputes escalating to tribunal, EHCP Genie does not provide legal advice and cannot guarantee outcomes.

Yes. EHCP Genie is designed to fit around local practice, not force a new one. Drafts can be exported directly into your local Microsoft Word template, ensuring alignment with your existing formatting and language.

As part of onboarding, we work closely with your team to configure EHCP Genie to reflect your local style, language preferences, and workflow. This includes mapping fields, tailoring prompts, and testing output with your own anonymised examples.

The platform currently supports one custom template per authority, with support for a second (e.g. for Year 9+ transition plans) launching in 2026.

EHCP Genie is hosted in UK-only Microsoft Azure data centres. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and all AI processing occurs in memory – with no personal data retained or used to train third-party models.

Uploaded documents are securely deleted after use, and an optional anonymised “fingerprint” may be retained to flag duplicates. Councils remain responsible for consent and lawful processing under GDPR.

EHCP Genie currently uses the GPT-4 family of models, hosted securely within Microsoft Azure's UK data centre. We plan to upgrade to GPT-5 as soon as it's available in the UK Azure environment. Our goal is to ensure councils always benefit form the most secure and capable AI models available, without compromising data protection and reliability.

Yes. EHCP Genie is designed to help teams work in line with the Children and Families Act 2014, the SEND Code of Practice and current best practice. Built‑in prompts and checks encourage inclusion of required content, clear alignment between needs, outcomes and provision, and specific, quantified wording where appropriate. Plans remain fully editable and are reviewed by professionals, and the local authority retains responsibility for legal compliance. EHCP Genie does not provide legal advice.

Yes. With reforms on the horizon – including a possible national threshold and tiered “children’s plan” models – EHCP Genie is built to adapt. Its flexible structure supports evolving policy without compromising consistency or quality.

Seamlessly. EHCP content can flow directly into Funding Genie, helping practitioners make consistent, evidence-based funding decisions. Key plan details appear alongside banding questions to improve accuracy and reduce duplication.

Yes. It’s part of the SEND Genie Toolkit, which includes:
- Funding Genie (banding decisions)
- EHCP Genie (plan drafting and review)
- Insight Genie (forecasting and delivery planning – coming soon)

Our SEND specialists provide tailored onboarding, training, and support. We work directly with local authority teams to ensure EHCP Genie fits your processes and delivers value from day one.

- Reduction in drafting time
- Improved EHCP quality
- Fewer panel queries
- Stronger inspection and tribunal defensibility
- Improved consistency across teams

You can book a discovery call with one of our SEND specialists or download the info sheet to explore how EHCP Genie could fit your council's needs.

At Imosphere, we’re committed to using AI transparently, ethically, and in ways that support - not replace - human judgement. All our AI tools, including EHCP Genie, are guided by our AI Guiding Principles, which set out our commitment to data governance, human-centred design, and responsible innovation.

We’re committed to designing digital tools that are not only effective but also environmentally responsible. EHCP Genie minimises its carbon footprint through:

- Use of smaller, task-specific AI models instead of large, general-purpose ones
- Modular prompts that send only relevant content, reducing token and compute usage
- Responsible AI deployment - we only use AI where it adds value and actively monitor compute impact
- Hosting in UK-based Microsoft Azure data centres powered by renewable energy

This ensures we support councils with sustainable digital solutions that meet performance and climate goals alike.