AI tool for Annual Reviews

Upload an EHCP and the annual review drafts itself, every point traced back to the plan. Special schools screen referrals the same way. You keep the judgement. Clearrpath gives back the hours.

Annual reviews✦ AI drafting
Summer term · 12 due · every point traced to the EHCP
PupilYearStatusReview
JJayden R.Yr 8Finalised12 Jun
AAmara O.Yr 5Draft ready18 Jun
LLeo M.Yr 10Awaiting comments24 Jun
PPriya K.Yr 7Not started27 Jun

Benefits

Increased time availability for what truly matters… The Students

Endless hours spent on annual reviews, at work and at home, leave no time for the tasks that truly matter.

EHCPs, read in seconds

Upload a plan and the AI builds a pupil profile instantly. Every key need, provision and outcome is summarised, with each point linked to the line it came from.

Private by design

Powered by Anthropic's Claude, which never trains on your data. Pupil information stays confidential and GDPR compliant, always.

Straight into your template

Watch the review fill itself in, live on screen. The AI drafts each section into your existing annual review format, ready for you to refine.

Comments chase themselves

Friendly automated reminders go to teachers until every contribution is in, so nothing stalls and you never have to nag.

Clearrpath · SENCO Dashboard
Annual reviews
Pupils
84
Reviews due
12
AI drafts ready
31
PupilYearStatusReview
JJayden R.Yr 8Finalised12 Jun
AAmara O.Yr 5In review18 Jun
LLeo M.Yr 10Awaiting comments24 Jun

See it work

Watch the review fill itself in

The EHCP and your teachers' comments go in. The draft comes out already written, with every paragraph credited to the teacher who wrote it.

Clearrpath · annual review · Jayden R.
What it reads
EHCP · Jayden R.4 outcomes · needs · provision
Mr Hale · EnglishComments submitted
Ms Okafor · MathsComments submitted
Mr Adeyemi · ScienceComments submitted
Pull comments into the form
Annual reviewDraft ready to check
Section 3 · What is working well?
English (Mr Hale): Jayden contributes confidently in paired talk and his writing is far more accurate when he is given time to plan first.
Maths (Ms Okafor): Recall of number bonds is now secure, and he works independently for longer when using concrete apparatus.
Section 4 · Things would be better if…
Science (Mr Adeyemi): Jayden had processing time before being asked to respond in front of the class, and a printed word bank for practical write-ups.
E1 · Progress towards outcome
English (Mr Hale): Now writes three linked sentences with a scaffold — on track against E1.traced to EHCP

Every paragraph keeps the teacher's own words and says who wrote it. The SENCO edits and approves before anything is sent.

Automate reviews

A friendly, four-step process to automate your annual reviews.

01
Upload EHCPs
Drop in the EHCP documents for your pupils.
02
AI analyses pupil data
Claude reads each plan and pulls out what matters.
03
Bullet points with evidence
Essential information, summarised, with every point sourced.
04
Download everything
Export the review plus all supporting evidence in one go.
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EHCP analysis · Jayden R.
EHCP_Jayden_R.docx✓ analysed
Communication & interaction
Uses 2 to 3 word phrases; benefits from visual prompts.
Cognition & learning
Working around 2 years below age expected in literacy.
SEMH
Needs a consistent adult and a calm transition routine.
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Admissions, for special schools

Referrals screened against your own criteria, with the decision left where it belongs

A consultation from the local authority is a stack of paper and a fifteen-day clock. Clearrpath reads the plan, sets what it says against what your school can offer, and hands you the comparison — organised, sourced, and yours to overrule.

01
A referral arrives
Upload the consultation and the EHCP. The fifteen-day response deadline is on the record from the first minute, with every task, visit and letter that follows.
02
The plan, read under your headings
Needs, attendance, exclusions, incidents, risk, staffing, Section F and the rest — each finding quoted from the plan, and “not stated” said plainly where the paperwork is silent.
03
Compared with what your school offers
You write the criteria once, heading by heading. The AI sets each area against them: consistent with your offer, requires clarification, or potential mismatch — with a short reason and the exact information still needed.
04
Section F, requirement by requirement
Every provision the plan specifies is listed in its own words and classified: can provide, can provide with adjustment, requires clarification, cannot currently provide.
05
Your decision, on the record
A summary puts the reasons for and against, the staffing and safety concerns and a recommended next step at the top. The SENCO or Head records the outcome in their own words. The AI recommends; a person decides.

What the AI is not allowed to do

  • No score, no percentage, no ranking of children — ever.
  • Nothing is rejected or closed automatically.
  • The AI never infers a diagnosis, a risk level or a motive that the plan does not state.
  • Missing, contradictory or out-of-date information is flagged for clarification, not read as reassurance.
  • A child being considered is invisible to staff until a trial is agreed.
  • Every extraction, comparison and decision is logged, with who and when.

Written to a special school’s own rule: the system may extract and organise evidence from an EHCP, but the decision about a child, and the reasons for it, stay with staff, in their own words.

Also included

The rest of the SENCO’s year, in the same place

Planner and calendar

Meeting dates, rooms and leads for every review, and a four-week “coming up” view of what is still missing before each one.

Reminders that stop

Teachers are chased until their comments are in, then left alone. One click reminds everyone who still owes something.

Draft until approved

Everything the AI extracts stays a draft until a member of staff has read it and approved it, section by section.

Permissions per function

Referrals, staff management and reviews are granted separately. One person controls who can do what.

Access arrangements

Exam access arrangements for the whole cohort in one place, with the evidence behind each one.

Documents and exports

Every pupil’s documents together, and the finished review exported as Word in your own template.

Teacher directory

Who teaches whom, who has answered, and a one-page profile for every pupil that any teacher can read.

Retention and erasure

Records kept to the statutory schedule and erased on request — files, comments and AI output included.

Specifications

Pricing that fits your school

Every plan is the complete tool, with the same AI quality for every child. You pay for the size of your cohort, nothing more.

Single school
Up to 45 pupils with an EHCP
£900per year
  • Full AI drafting on every review
  • Every point sourced to the EHCP
  • Teacher comments chased automatically
  • Full document exports
  • Email support
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Large or SEND school
150 pupils with an EHCP
£3,000per year
  • Everything in Single school
  • Higher review capacity
  • Guided onboarding
  • Priority support
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Trusts & local authorities
150+ pupils with an EHCP
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  • Everything in Large or SEND school
  • One view across your schools
  • Dedicated onboarding
  • Custom terms and invoicing
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Annual review · preview
Report sent
Annual Review
Jayden R. · Year 8 · June 2026
Section A: Views & aspirations
Section B: Special educational needs
Section E: Outcomes

Our purpose

Annual reviews should protect the child, never consume the people who care for them.

Clearrpath takes the drafting, chasing and formatting off the SENCO’s desk, so the hours go back to the pupils who need them.

Everything is tracked by the SENCO

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01

Comments

Comments are stored and can be downloaded as originals, and updated any time.

02

Changes

Uploads, review sign off, exports and erasures are all logged, with who and when.

03

AI data

Most important of all, every AI action is recorded, so its work can always be checked and challenged.

Clearrpath · Activity log
AI extracted 6 sourced points from EHCPToday 14:32
SENCO edited Outcome 3Today 14:35
Comment requested from teacher · J. SmithToday 14:40
Teacher comment received & storedToday 15:02
AI activity logged for the accuracy auditToday 15:03

Pricing

From £75 a month, billed as £900 a year

That is the minimum, and it covers every school with up to 45 pupils on an EHC plan. Above that it is £1.67 per plan a month — £20 a year — on one annual invoice, so it is a single purchase order rather than twelve. No charge per teacher, no setup fee, no module you have to add later to get the bit you needed.

plans
£75.00
a month — billed annually as £900
The minimum, which covers any school up to 45 pupils.
£810 a year on a three-year agreement

Every teacher included

Invite as many staff as you need. Reviews depend on teachers contributing, so charging per seat would only discourage the thing that makes it work.

Your data, yours to take

Export every review, comment and summary at any time. If you leave, you leave with the paperwork — nothing is held hostage.

Billed once a year

Annually in advance, on a purchase order if that suits your finance office. Ten per cent off a three-year agreement.

Compliance

The law is built in

Clearrpath works with special category data about children, so the statutory framework is engineered into the product rather than bolted on afterwards. This is the law it is built around.

01

Children and Families Act 2014 and SEND Regulations 2014

Every statutory timescale is tracked for you: annual reviews at least every 12 months, more frequent reviews for under fives, papers circulated two weeks before the meeting, the report to the local authority within two weeks after, the four week decision window, and phase transfer deadlines of 15 February and 31 March. Overdue reviews are flagged before they slip.

02

SEND Code of Practice 2015

Reviews follow chapter 9 of the statutory Code: the child's views and aspirations, parent and carer contributions, attendees and their advice, progress against each EHC outcome, and preparation for adulthood from Year 9 onwards.

03

UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018

Your school remains the data controller at all times. Each school's data is isolated at the database level, key actions are recorded in an audit trail, records follow the statutory retention schedule to age 25, and the right to erasure removes everything, files included. Written for the UK GDPR as amended by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025.

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Safe AI, on the record

The AI never trains on pupil data. Every draft is grounded in the child's own EHCP with the evidence shown line by line, a member of staff reviews and approves every word, and each AI step is logged. No decision about a child is ever made by a machine alone.

Read our privacy notice for the full detail. Every school also receives a data protection impact assessment template for its own records.

On our assurance roadmap ahead of wider rollout: Cyber Essentials certification, a WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility audit, and a self assessment against the Department for Education's generative AI product safety standards.

Contact

Tell us about your school and we will get you set up.

or email laurynas@clearr.uk directly