AI generated EHCP drafts for Local Authority SEND Teams

✅  VITA is an AI generated EHCP drafting tool built specifically for UK local authority SEND teams, generating first-draft plans aligned to your local template

✅ Improves consistency and avoids the failure points of generic AI tools for SEND teams

✅ Co-designed with SEND professionals and board of trusted advisors

💫 Backed by UK Government-funded Innovate UK Smart Grant

👀 Latest updates | Built in AI Assistant, OAP removal and reduction, match to your template, document highlighting audit trail

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The SEND crisis you’re facing

Ofsted and CQC inspections consistently highlight the same critical challenges. You're not alone in struggling with these sector-wide issues

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Statutory deadlines

Only 46% of education, health and care plans met the statutory 20-week deadline in 2024 (DfE, 2025), creating legal risk and family frustration. Purpose-built EHCP drafting tools can help close that gap.

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Quality variation

9 in 10 investigated EHCP complaints are upheld against local authorities (Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman) — document consistency and evidencing are recurring themes.

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Resource pressure

SEND teams experiencing sustained demand that exceeds capacity - 718,838 children and young people had EHC plans as of January 2026, 12.5% higher than January 2025

Why generic AI tools fall short for EHCPs

Off-the-shelf AI tools weren't built for statutory SEND processes. They don't align to your local area template, can't show caseworkers where specific information came from, and offer no structured quality feedback against the EHCP Code of Practice, leaving teams to catch errors manually. VITA was built specifically to close those gaps.

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Match to your local area template

Once commissioned, VITA will match its plan output to your local area template.

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Advice transparency

Document highlighting allows caseworkers to directly access underlying documents to see precisely where specific information has been sourced. Additionally, they can use citations to cross-reference statements in the plan and identify their origins.

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Higher quality EHCPs

Standardise EHCP quality across your authority with AI-powered best practice implementation. For professionals new to SEND, VITA acts as a learning framework. For experienced staff, it provides a more efficient starting point.

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Managing Ordinarily Available Provision

VITA automatically removes ordinarily available provisions from your draft EHCP into a review panel, organised by SEN area, and they can be easily reinstated if needed, reducing duplication within EHCPs.

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Targeted quality feedback

Beyond generation, VITA provides targeted quality feedback on specific sections, helping identify areas for improvement.

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AI assistant

VITA's AI Assistant is specifically designed for drafting and reviewing EHCPs, setting it apart from generic chatbots that have a limited understanding of the process. Caseworkers can ask targeted questions, refine particular sections, and enhance the quality of their drafting all within the platform.

Draft an EHCP with VITA

Your EHCP workflow with VITA

  

What SEND professionals are saying

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Tameside Metropolitan Borough

“VITA offers real promise in helping us speed up productivity, improve the quality of our EHCPs, and create a more consistent approach across the service. Used alongside the Invision360 QA module, it will support the continued development of high-quality written plans that make a genuine difference to children, young people and their families.”

Hilary Cook - Head of Service SEND

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Kent County Council

“Whilst we have utilised generic AI tools to help with aspects of the writing of EHCPs, it is the bespoke and comprehensive nature of VITA that resulted in our decision to commission this solution moving forward. VITA supports us in strengthening our person-centred approach and keeping the C/YP at the heart of the EHCP process.”

Debbie Edmonds - SEND QA and Practice Development Manager

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EHCP Plan writers

“The platform uses the documents that it is provided and is really clear on raising attentions to contradictions, citations and providing a simple system for all to use. It is able to help scaffold plan writing and allows you to easily adapt contents to better suit each plan.”

"I really appreciated that this is an AI tool to support and help us and not to replace the role of the plan writer.”

For parents and carers

Built specifically for the highly regulated SEND sector with security at every layer

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ISO27001 certified

International standard for information security management

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Cyber essentials +

Government-backed cybersecurity certification

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UK data residency

All data stored securely within London AWS region

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No training data

Child data never used to train AI models

Common questions about VITA and EHCP drafting tools

What is VITA by Invision360?

VITA is Invision360's generative AI module for drafting Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) - built specifically for local authority SEND teams and co-designed with SEND professionals and board of trusted advisors. VITA is built to reduce the time it takes for SEND professionals to write first draft EHCPs, standardising EHCP quality across your authority with AI-powered best practice implementation.

Does VITA align with our local authority's own EHCP template?

Yes. VITA drafts directly into your local authorities existing template and section structure, ensuring it fits around you local areas requirements. As part of your onboarding we work with you to map your template for VITA to read.

How does VITA support document consistency across a SEND team?

VITA standardises structure, language, and quality benchmarking across every EHCP first draft, regardless of which caseworker is drafting it helping SEND teams reduce the variation that often shows up under Ofsted/CQC area SEND inspection.

Can we see where VITA's draft content came from?

Yes. VITA highlights the source evidence behind each section of a draft, so caseworkers can trace and verify content in conversations around the plan.

Is VITA suitable for UK local authority data handling requirements?

VITA was built specifically for UK local authority SEND teams, with data handling designed around public sector requirements unlike general AI in education tools built for broader consumer or enterprise use.

Does VITA replace the need for human review of an EHCP?

No. VITA generates a first draft for a caseworker to review, refine, and finalise. It's designed to reduce drafting time, not replace professional judgement or family/child involvement in the plan. The local authority SEND officer will review and amend the draft EHCP, which can then be discussed with the child or young person and parents/carers in a coproduced meeting

Will VITA understand my child's unique needs and personality?

VITA carefully preserves and organises the understanding that you and professionals have already provided. VITA works like a highly skilled editor, taking all the insights about your child from different sources and making sure they flow together coherently. Your child's individuality comes from your input and professional assessments. Every VITA-generated draft is thoroughly reviewed by experienced SEND professionals before you see it to ensure it's highly individualised

Schedule a demo

See how VITA writes high-quality first draft EHCPs in a 30-minute demo. 

✅ Manage the growing EHCP demand while ensuring quality and supporting strong service delivery across all teams

✅ Earlier automated QA highlighting where sections can be improved or where information is missing

✅ Use citations to cross reference statements in the plan and identify where they have been sourced from

✅ Procure today with a quick and simple onboarding

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