Data set from Education, health and care plans

Number of new EHC plans during the calendar year, by their primary type of need

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Published 26 June 2025

Last updated 12 January 2026

The number of new EHC plans each year, by their primary SEN need. This is shown for the type of setting attended, age when plan started, ethnicity, and sex. Data is shown on an calendar year basis.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Education, health and care plans
• Release: Reporting year 2025
• Number of rows: 9,832
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Total number of new EHC plans
  • Autistic spectrum disorder
  • Hearing impairment
• Filters:
  • Characteristics of child or young person for whom EHC needs assessment requested
• Time period: 2024

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	new_la_code	old_la_code	la_name	breakdown_topic	breakdown	ehc_plans	number_asd	number_hi	number_mld	number_msi	number_oth	number_pd	number_pmld	number_semh	number_slcn	number_sld	number_spld	number_vi	number_need_unknown	asd_pc	hi_pc	mld_pc	msi_pc	oth_pc	pd_pc	pmld_pc	semh_pc	slcn_pc	sld_pc	spld_pc	vi_pc	unknown_pc
202425	Calendar year	National	E92000001	England						Age when plan started	age 10	8477	2323	53	1234	10	111	115	28	2509	1351	95	483	36	129	27.4	0.6	14.6	0.1	1.3	1.4	0.3	29.6	15.9	1.1	5.7	0.4	1.5
202425	Calendar year	National	E92000001	England						Age when plan started	age 11	7082	1968	31	895	10	103	122	13	2413	919	69	384	28	127	27.8	0.4	12.6	0.1	1.5	1.7	0.2	34.1	13	1	5.4	0.4	1.8
202425	Calendar year	National	E92000001	England						Age when plan started	age 12	4136	1159	24	334	3	58	69	11	1777	408	37	147	24	85	28	0.6	8.1	0.1	1.4	1.7	0.3	43	9.9	0.9	3.6	0.6	2.1
202425	Calendar year	National	E92000001	England						Age when plan started	age 13	5045	1353	18	310	7	49	58	9	2571	420	39	106	13	92	26.8	0.4	6.1	0.1	1	1.1	0.2	51	8.3	0.8	2.1	0.3	1.8
202425	Calendar year	National	E92000001	England						Age when plan started	age 14	4960	1195	21	259	10	71	76	8	2678	368	29	108	22	115	24.1	0.4	5.2	0.2	1.4	1.5	0.2	54	7.4	0.6	2.2	0.4	2.3

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 28 variables

Variable name	Variable description
asd_pc	Autistic spectrum disorder (%)
breakdown	Characteristics of child or young person for whom EHC needs assessment requested - Filter by primary need recorded in EHC plan
ehc_plans	Total number of new EHC plans
hi_pc	Hearing impairment (%)
mld_pc	Moderate learning difficulty (%)

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Footnotes

1. Cambridgeshire and North East Lincolnshire were not able to return placements for significant numbers of plans for 2025. Brighton and Hove, and Wolverhampton, made significant numbers of errors in the placement attended. For these local authorities the breakdown by placement attended has therefore been supressed. 
2. Age is calculated based on the start date recorded for the EHC plan.
3. Surrey submitted amended figures on the primary type of need following completion of the SEN2 data collection in 2025. The published figures include the amended totals they supplied. Information on characteristics for this authority is not therefore available.

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