Number and percentage of pupils with an EHC plan or SEN support, by type of school, for 2020/21 and 2021/22

Number and percentage of pupils by SEN provision and school type, 2020/21 and 2021/22

Number and percentage of pupils with EHC plan or SEN support, by local authority, 2021/22

Number and percentage of pupils with SEN in all schools, by local authority, 2021/22

Timeseries showing number and percentage of  pupils with an EHC plan or SEN support between 2015/16 and 2021/22. Data covers all schools including independents.

Number and percentage of pupils with SEN, all schools, 2015/16 to 2021/22

Number of pupils with an EHC plan or SEN support, by primary type of need (for example, autistic spectrum disorder or hearing impairment), 2020/21 and 2021/22

Number of pupils with an EHC plan or SEN support, by type of need, 2020/21 and 2021/22

Number of pupils with an EHC plan or SEN support by ethnicity, 2021/22



Number of pupils with SEN, by ethnicity, 2021/22

Timeseries of percentage of pupils with EHC plans, in all schools including independents, by local authority, from 2015/16 to 2021/22

Percentage of pupils with EHC plans in all schools, by local authority, 2015/16 to 2021/22

Timeseries showing percentage of pupils with an EHC plan or with SEN support who are eligible for free school meals between 2015/16 and 2021/22

Pupils with SEN, by type of SEN and free school meal eligibility (%), 2015/16 to 2021/22

Timeseries of percentage of pupils with EHC plan and SEN support by gender, from 2015/16 to 2021/22

Pupils with SEN, by type of SEN and gender (%), 2015/16 to 2021/22

Percentage of pupils with an EHC plan and SEN support by whether first language is English or not, from 2015/16 to 2021/22



Pupils with SEN, by type of SEN and whether first language is English or not (%), from 2015/16 to 2021/22

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

01 - Pupils in all schools, by type of SEN provision - including independent schools and general hospital schools - 2016 to 2022

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

02 - Age and Gender, by type of SEN provision and type of need - 2016 to 2022

Number of pupils in state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, non-maintained special schools and pupil referral units by SEN provision, type of need, free school meal eligibility, language and ethnicity.

03 - FSM, Ethnicity and Language, by type of SEN provision and type of need - 2016 to 2022

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

04 - Year group, by type of SEN provision and type of need - 2016 to 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

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

Including children in need and child protection, children looked after and social work workforce statistics

Children's social care

Including Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

COVID-19

Including not in education, employment or training (NEET) statistics

Destination of pupils and students

Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics

Early years

Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics

Finance and funding

Including advanced learner loan, benefit claimant and apprenticeship and traineeship statistics

Further education

Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics

Higher education

Labour market and skills

Including absence, application and offers, capacity, exclusion and special educational needs (SEN) statistics

Pupils and schools

School and college outcomes and performance

Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics

Teachers and school workforce

Including summarised expenditure, post-compulsory education, qualification and school statistics

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