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'05 - Requests, assessments, discontinued plans, 20 week timeliness, mainstream to special transfers, mediation and tribunals' from 'Education, health and care plans'

• Created: 21 October 2022

WARNING - The data used in this table may now be out-of-date as a new release has been published since its creation.

'05 - Requests, assessments, discontinued plans, 20 week timeliness, mainstream to special transfers, mediation and tribunals' in England and Lancashire between 2015 and 2021

			2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
England		Initial requests for an EHC plan	z	55,235	64,555	72,423	82,329	75,951	93,302
		Children and young people assessed for whom an EHC plan was issued	24,654	36,094	42,162	48,907	53,899	60,097	62,180
		Initial requests for assessment for an EHC plan that were refused	10,935	14,795	14,586	17,890	18,755	16,406	20,830
		Assessments where it was decided not to issue an EHC plan	1,010	1,657	3,043	2,687	3,368	3,122	3,903
		Still being assessed or where assessment has been completed but no decision taken for an EHC plan at the calendar year end	9,966	10,654	12,993	13,982	18,459	18,232	22,654
North West	Lancashire	Initial requests for an EHC plan	z	880	1,048	1,304	1,278	924	1,270
		Children and young people assessed for whom an EHC plan was issued	408	634	906	900	1,005	1,027	1,184
		Initial requests for assessment for an EHC plan that were refused	190	150	224	370	211	83	291
		Assessments where it was decided not to issue an EHC plan	0	12	15	40	35	14	17
		Still being assessed or where assessment has been completed but no decision taken for an EHC plan at the calendar year end	145	210	360	250	284	221	3

Footnotes

1. Figures for assessments still in progress correspond to the end of the calendar year, for example, the 2021 figure corresponds to those assessments still in progress at 31st December 2021
2. Medway notified the department of an error post-publication in 2022. Assessments in the local authority where it was decided not to issue an EHC plan during the 2021 calendar year should have been 16 (5.0%, published = 223, 42.4%). The resulting total of children and young people assessed for whom a plan was issued and those for whom one not issued should have been 319 (published = 526) and the percentage of children and young people assessed in the local authority for whom EHC plans were made for the first time during 2021 should have been 95.0% (published = 57.6%).

Source: Education, health and care plans, 05 - Requests, assessments, discontinued plans, 20 week timeliness, mainstream to special transfers, mediation and tribunals

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