Data set from Special educational needs in England

05 - Secondary need, by type of SEN provision and type of need - 2016 to 2022

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Published 16 June 2022

Last updated 16 June 2022

Number of pupils in state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, non-maintained special schools and pupil referral units by SEN provision, primary type of need and secondary type of need

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Special educational needs in England
• Release: Academic year 2021/22
• Number of rows: 218,716
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Autistic Spectrum Disorder
  • Autistic Spectrum Disorder (%)
  • Headcount
  • Hearing impairment
  • Hearing impairment (%)
  • Moderate Learning Difficulty
  • Moderate Learning Difficulty (%)
  • Multi-sensory Impairment
  • Multi-sensory Impairment (%)
  • Other Difficulty or Disability
  • Other Difficulty or Disability (%)
  • Physical Disability
  • Physical Disability (%)
  • Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
  • Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty (%)
  • SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need
  • SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need (%)
  • Severe Learning Difficulty
  • Severe Learning Difficulty (%)
  • Social, Emotional and Mental Health
  • Social, Emotional and Mental Health (%)
  • Specific Learning Difficulty
  • Specific Learning Difficulty (%)
  • Speech, Language and Communications needs
  • Speech, Language and Communications needs (%)
  • Visual impairment
  • Visual impairment (%)
• Filters:
  • Phase type of school
  • Primary type of need
  • SEN provision
• Time period: 2015/16 to 2021/22

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Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_name	region_code	old_la_code	la_name	new_la_code	phase_type_grouping	pupil_sen_status	primary_need	number_of_pupils	secondary_need_spld	secondary_need_mld	secondary_need_sld	secondary_need_pmld	secondary_need_semh	secondary_need_slcn	secondary_need_hi	secondary_need_vi	secondary_need_msi	secondary_need_pd	secondary_need_asd	secondary_need_oth	secondary_need_nsa	secondary_need_spld_percent	secondary_need_mld_percent	secondary_need_sld_percent	secondary_need_pmld_percent	secondary_need_semh_percent	secondary_need_slcn_percent	secondary_need_hi_percent	secondary_need_vi_percent	secondary_need_msi_percent	secondary_need_pd_percent	secondary_need_asd_percent	secondary_need_oth_percent	secondary_need_nsa_percent
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Non-maintained special school	Statement or EHC	Hearing Impairment	449	24	22	3	6	34	96	0	10	11	16	24	24	0	5.345211581	4.899777283	0.668151448	1.336302895	7.572383073	21.38084633	0	2.227171492	2.449888641	3.563474388	5.345211581	5.345211581	0
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Non-maintained special school	Statement or EHC	Moderate Learning Difficulty	116	1	0	0	0	6	43	1	2	2	9	15	6	0	0.862068966	0	0	0	5.172413793	37.06896552	0.862068966	1.724137931	1.724137931	7.75862069	12.93103448	5.172413793	0
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Non-maintained special school	Statement or EHC	Multi- Sensory Impairment	35	1	1	1	0	2	8	5	0	0	3	3	1	0	2.857142857	2.857142857	2.857142857	0	5.714285714	22.85714286	14.28571429	0	0	8.571428571	8.571428571	2.857142857	0
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Non-maintained special school	Statement or EHC	Other Difficulty/Disability	49	6	6	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	6	0	0	12.24489796	12.24489796	4.081632653	0	2.040816327	2.040816327	0	0	0	4.081632653	12.24489796	0	0
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Non-maintained special school	Statement or EHC	Physical Disability	328	3	59	44	46	5	56	5	10	9	0	0	3	0	0.914634146	17.98780488	13.41463415	14.02439024	1.524390244	17.07317073	1.524390244	3.048780488	2.743902439	0	0	0.914634146	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 30 variables

Variable name	Variable description
number_of_pupils	Headcount
phase_type_grouping	Phase type of school - Phase (primary, secondary, special, PRU, independent)
primary_need	Primary type of need - (ASD, HI, VI…)
pupil_sen_status	SEN provision - EHC plan/Statement of SEN or SEN support/School Action/School Action plus
secondary_need_asd	Autistic Spectrum Disorder
secondary_need_asd_percent	Autistic Spectrum Disorder (%)
secondary_need_hi	Hearing impairment
secondary_need_hi_percent	Hearing impairment (%)
secondary_need_mld	Moderate Learning Difficulty
secondary_need_mld_percent	Moderate Learning Difficulty (%)
secondary_need_msi	Multi-sensory Impairment
secondary_need_msi_percent	Multi-sensory Impairment (%)
secondary_need_nsa	SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need
secondary_need_nsa_percent	SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need (%)
secondary_need_oth	Other Difficulty or Disability
secondary_need_oth_percent	Other Difficulty or Disability (%)
secondary_need_pd	Physical Disability
secondary_need_pd_percent	Physical Disability (%)
secondary_need_pmld	Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
secondary_need_pmld_percent	Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty (%)
secondary_need_semh	Social, Emotional and Mental Health
secondary_need_semh_percent	Social, Emotional and Mental Health (%)
secondary_need_slcn	Speech, Language and Communications needs
secondary_need_slcn_percent	Speech, Language and Communications needs (%)
secondary_need_sld	Severe Learning Difficulty
secondary_need_sld_percent	Severe Learning Difficulty (%)
secondary_need_spld	Specific Learning Difficulty
secondary_need_spld_percent	Specific Learning Difficulty (%)
secondary_need_vi	Visual impairment
secondary_need_vi_percent	Visual impairment (%)

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Footnotes

1. Totals include state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, non-maintained special schools and pupil referral units. Does not include independent schools or the small number of general hospital schools.

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