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Reporting year 2021
Education, health and care plans
Data guidance
Published
Description
This document describes the data included in the Education, health and care (EHC) plans National Statistics release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data. The methodology document should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.
Coverage
This release provides information on the EHC plan process including:
number of active EHC plans at January of the calendar year
number of new EHC plans in the previous calendar year
the administration of requests for assessments for an EHC plan
The information is based on local authority level data collected via the SEN2 data collection. The underlying data files include national, regional and local authority level data
File formats and conventions
The dataset and outputs have not had suppression or rounding applied
The following convention is used throughout the underlying data.
z - Not applicable
Data files
All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.
01 - EHC plans - by age - January 2010 to 2021
Filename
sen2_age_caseload_20210513.csv
Geographic levels
Local authority; National; Regional
Time period
2010 to 2021
Content
Number of children and young people with an EHC plan, broken down by age band
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
characteristic_age
Age group - Filter by age group
Total_all
Number of statements and EHC plans combined
Total_all_pc
Percentage of statements and EHC plans combined
Total_ehc
Number of EHC plans
Total_ehc_pc
Percentage of EHC plans
Total_st
Number of statements
Total_st_pc
Percentage of statements
Footnotes
Percentage of all statements of SEN
Percentage of all EHC plans
Percentage of all EHC plans and statements of SEN combined
05 - Requests, assessments, discontinued plans, 20 week timeliness, mainstream to special transfers, mediation and tribunals
Filename
sen2_assess_requests_20weeks.csv
Geographic levels
Local authority; National; Regional
Time period
2014 to 2020
Content
Data on the administration of statements and EHC plans, including;
Requests for assessment
decisions to assess
decisions to issue
20 week timeliness
Mediation
Transfers between school types
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
Assnodecision
Still being assessed or where assessment has been completed but no decision taken for a statement of SEN at the calendar year end
AssnodecisionEHC
Still being assessed or where assessment has been completed but no decision taken for an EHC plan at the calendar year end
Assnone
Assessments where it was decided not to issue a statement of SEN
AssnoneEHC
Assessments where it was decided not to issue an EHC plan
AssnoneEHC_pc
Percentage of assessments during the calendar year where it was decided not to issue an EHC plan
AssRefused
Initial requests for assessment for a statement of SEN that were refused
AssRefusedEHC
Initial requests for assessment for an EHC plan that were refused
AssRefusedEHC_pc
Percentage of initial requests for assessment for an EHC plan that were refused during the calendar year
Dislea
Statement of SEN discontinued as transferred to another LA
DisleaEHC
EHC plan discontinued as transferred to another LA
Disleft
Statement of SEN discontinued because pupils have left school at the end of compulsory schooling or after
DisleftEHC
EHC plan discontinued because pupils have left school at the end of compulsory schooling or after
Dismet
Statement of SEN discontinued as special needs being met without an EHC plan
DismetEHC
EHC plan discontinued as special needs being met without an EHC plan
Disoth
Statement of SEN discontinued for other reasons
DisothEHC
EHC plan discontinued for other reasons
IncExc20weekEHC
EHC plans including exceptions issued within 20 weeks
IncExc20weekRate
Rate of EHC plans including exceptions issued within 20 weeks
IncExc26week
Statements including exceptions issued within 26 weeks
InreqEHC
Initial requests for an EHC plan
InreqryaEHC
Initial requests for an EHC plan when detained in youth accomodation
MtoPar
Children and young people with a statement of SEN who were taken out of school by their parents to be home educated from mainstream settings
MtoParEHC
Children and young people with an EHC plan who were taken out of school by their parents to be home educated from mainstream settings
Mtosi
Children and young people with a statement of SEN who transferred from mainstream to special settings
MtosiEHC
Children and young people with an EHC plan who transferred from mainstream to special settings
NewallEHC
Children and young people assessed for whom an EHC plan was issued
NewallEHC_AssnoneEHC_sum
Children and young people assessed for whom a plan was issued and those for whom one not issued
NewallEHC_pc
Percentage of children and young people assessed for whom EHC plans were made for the first time during the calendar year
NewEHCMediation
Mediation cases that have been held
NewEHCTribunal
Mediation cases that have been held which were followed by appeals to the Tribunal
NewEHCTribunal_pc
Percentage of mediation cases held which were followed by appeals to tribunal
NoExc20weekEHC
EHC plans excluding exceptions issued within 20 weeks
NoExc20weekRate
Rate of EHC plans excluding exceptions issued within 20 weeks
NoExc26week
Statements excluding exceptions issued within 26 weeks
Sitom
Children and young people with a statement of SEN who transferred from special to mainstream settings
SitomEHC
Children and young people with an EHC plan who transferred from special to mainstream settings
SitoPar
Children and young people with a statement of SEN who were taken out of school by their parents to be home educated from special settings
SitoParEHC
Children and young people with an EHC plan who were taken out of school by their parents to be home educated from special settings
StatementstoEHC
Children and young people with statements who were issued with an EHC plan
StatementstoNoEHC
Children and young people with statements who were assessed for an EHC plan and a decision not to issue an EHC plan made
TotIncExc
Statements including exceptions
TotIncExcEHC
EHC plans including exceptions
TotNoExc
Statements excluding exceptions
TotNoExcEHC
EHC plans excluding exceptions
Footnotes
Figures for assessments still in progress correspond to the end of the calendar year, for example, the 2020 figure corresponds to those assessments still in progress at 31st December 2020