Reporting year 2020

Education, health and care plans

Children and young people in England with an education, health and care plan (EHCP), including annual local authority activity on EHCP requests and assessment.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 7 May 2020

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• SEN2 Age Caseload

  Local authority, National, Regional

  • Number of rows: 9,877
  • Indicators:
    • Number of EHC plans
    • Number of statements
    • Number of statements and EHC plans combined
  • Filters:
    • Age group
  • Time period: 2010 to 2020

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• SEN2 Age New Plans

  Local authority, National, Regional

  • Number of rows: 9,877
  • Indicators:
    • Number of new EHC plans
    • Number of new statements
    • Number of new statements and EHC plans combined
  • Filters:
    • Age group
  • Time period: 2009 to 2019

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• SEN2 Estab New Plans

  Local authority, National, Regional

  • Number of rows: 24,096
  • Indicators:
    • Number of new EHC plans
    • Number of new statements
    • Number of new statements and EHC plans combined
  • Filters:
    • Establishment group
    • Establishment type
  • Time period: 2016 to 2019

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• SEN2 Establishment type Caseload

  Local authority, National, Regional

  • Number of rows: 24,096
  • Indicators:
    • Number of EHC plans
    • Number of statements
    • Number of statements and EHC plans combined
  • Filters:
    • Establishment group
    • Establishment type
  • Time period: 2017 to 2020

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• SEN2 MI

  Local authority, National, Regional

  • Number of rows: 972
  • Indicators:
    • Number of children and young people assessed for whom it was decided not to issue a statement of SEN
    • Number of children and young people assessed for whom it was decided not to issue an EHC plan
    • Number of children and young people assessed who are still being assessed or where assessment has been completed but no decision taken for a statement of SEN
  • Time period: 2014 to 2019

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• SEN2 Residential settings, Work based placement and medical officer data

  Local authority, National, Regional

  • Number of rows: 648
  • Indicators:
    • Children and young people with EHC plans - in residential settings, 38 to 51 weeks, Total
    • Children and young people with EHC plans - in residential settings, 38 to 51 weeks, age 11 to 15
    • Children and young people with EHC plans - in residential settings, 38 to 51 weeks, age 16 to 19
  • Time period: 2017 to 2020

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If you have a specific enquiry about Education, health and care plans statistics and data:

School Census Statistics team

Email: sen.statistics@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Special Educational Needs statistics lead

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