Work placed placements
Latest data
Published
Last updated
The number of work based placements each year, by age, sex, ethnicity and the type of setting attended. Figures are shown as at January, on an academic year basis, and also work based placements which were active in the previous calendar year.
On this page
Data set details
- Theme
- Pupils and schools
- Publication
- Education, health and care plans
- Release
- Reporting year 2026
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 24,335
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Regional
- Indicators
- Total work based placements
- Apprenticeships
- Supported internships
- Filters
- Characteristics of young people with a work based placement
- Time period
- 2024/25 to 2025/26
Data set preview
| 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 | open_supp_intern | open_apprentice | open_trainee | open_wbp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202425 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | All work based placements | All work based placements | 2673 | 1017 | 686 | 4376 | |||||
| 202425 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Ethnicity | Any other ethnic group | 47 | 3 | 2 | 52 | |||||
| 202425 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Ethnicity | Asian - Any other Asian background | 44 | 1 | 3 | 48 | |||||
| 202425 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Ethnicity | Asian - Bangladeshi | 67 | 8 | 1 | 76 | |||||
| 202425 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Ethnicity | Asian - Chinese | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| breakdown | Characteristics of young people with a work based placement - Filter by characteristics of child or young person, years EHC plan in place or the placement attended |
| open_apprentice | Apprenticeships |
| open_supp_intern | Supported internships |
| open_trainee | Traineeships |
| open_wbp | Total work based placements |
Footnotes
- Includes service children's education, offshore schools, secure units, British schools overseas and establishments listed as "Miscellaneous" on Get Information About Schools (opens in new tab).
- Brighton and Hove did not return information on primary need in the 2026 data collection.
- Information on primary type of need indicates the nature of the person’s special educational need and does not indicate prevalence of a medical condition or diagnosis within the population.
- Figures for the Isle of Wight for the 2025 calendar year and 2025/26 academic year are suppressed due to issues with data quality.
Using this data
Download the underlying data as a compressed ZIP file
View or create your own tables
View tables that we have built for you, or create your own tables from open data using our table tool
Download this data using code
Access this data using common programming languages using the URL below.
Example code
Contact us
If you have a specific enquiry about Work placed placements statistics and data:
School Census Statistics team
Email: sen.statistics@education.gov.ukContact name: Special Educational Needs statistics lead