Data set from Education, health and care plans

Number of EHC plans with a personal budget in place

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Published 26 June 2025

Last updated 26 June 2025

The number of EHC plans where there is personal budget in place. This is broken down by age, sex, ethnicity and the type of setting attended. Figures are shown as at January each year, on an academic 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: 22,955
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Total EHC plans with personal budget in place
  • Personal budget covers any combination of education, health and social care
  • Personal budget covers education only
• Filters:
  • Characteristics of residential placements
• Time period: 2019/20 to 2024/25

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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	personal_budget	org_arrangments	pb_health	pb_education	pb_social	pb_integrated
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						All personal budgets	All personal budgets	20346	2235	355	1362	16467	723
201920	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				All personal budgets	All personal budgets	1403	179	89	62	1003	212
201920	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				All personal budgets	All personal budgets	4513	378	41	234	3906	40
201920	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber				All personal budgets	All personal budgets	1004	100	38	152	740	25
201920	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				All personal budgets	All personal budgets	1327	272	47	89	864	101

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 7 variables

Variable name	Variable description
breakdown	Characteristics of residential placements - Filter by characteristics of plan where personal budget is in place
org_arrangments	Number with organised arrangements
pb_education	Personal budget covers education only
pb_health	Personal budget covers health only
pb_integrated	Personal budget covers any combination of education, health and social care

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