Reporting year 2021

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: 13 May 2021
• Last updated: 27 October 2021

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• Number of new EHC plans, by age band, 2015 to 2020 calendar year

  Table shows number and percentage of new EHC plans by age band, 2015 to 2020 calendar year

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• Number of new EHC plans, by establishment type, 2015 to 2020 calendar year

  Table shows number and percentage of new EHC plans by establishment type, 2015 to 2020 calendar year

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• Number of EHC plans and statements of SEN, by age band, 2015 to 2021

  Table shows number and percentage of EHC plans and statements of SEN combined by age band, 2015 to 2021

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• Timeliness of EHC plans, 2014 to 2015 calendar years

  Number and percentage of EHC plans issued within 20 weeks, including and excluding exceptions, 2014 to 2020 calendar years

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• Number of EHC plans with a personal budget or direct payment, 2015 to 2021

  Table shows number of personal budgets and direct payments in place for EHC plans in England, from 2015 to 2021

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• EHC plan assessments, 2014 to 2020 calendar years

  Number of assessments and number and percentage of assessments , 2014 to 2020 calendar years

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• Requests refused (%) and assessment outcomes (%) by local authority

  Percentage of initial requests refused, assessments where a plan was made and assessments where it was decided not to issue a plan, by local authority, 2019 and 2020 calendar years

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• Number of new EHC plans, 2014 to 2020 calendar year

  Table shows number and percentage of new EHC plans, 2014 to 2020 calendar year

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• Number of mediations and number and percentage of mediations that were followed by tribunals, 2014 to 2020 calendar years

  Number of mediations in calendar year and number and percentage of mediations that were followed by tribunals, 2014 to 2020 calendar years

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• Number of EHC plans and statements of SEN, 2015 to 2021

  Table shows number of EHC plans and statements of SEN in England, from 2015 to 2021

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• EHC plans by establishment type, 2018 to 2021

  Number and percentage of EHC plans, by establishment type, 2018 to 2021

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• Initial requests for EHC plans, 2014 to 2020 calendar years

  Number of initial requests and number and percentage of initial requests refused, 2014 to 2020 calendar years

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• 04 - New EHC plans - by establishment type - 2009 to 2020

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Number of children and young people with a new EHC plan in the calendar year, broken down by establishment type

  • Number of rows: 60,663
  • 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: 2009 to 2020

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• 03 - New EHC plans - by age - 2009 to 2020

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Number of children and young people with a new EHC plan in the calendar year, broken down by age band

  • Number of rows: 10,843
  • 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 2020

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• 01 - EHC plans - by age - January 2010 to 2021

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Number of children and young people with an EHC plan, broken down by age band

  • Number of rows: 10,843
  • Indicators:
    • Number of EHC plans
    • Number of statements
    • Number of statements and EHC plans combined
  • Filters:
    • Age group
  • Time period: 2010 to 2021

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• 05 - Requests, assessments, discontinued plans, 20 week timeliness, mainstream to special transfers, mediation and tribunals

  Local authority, National, Regional

  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

  • Number of rows: 1,133
  • Indicators:
    • Assessments where it was decided not to issue a statement of SEN
    • Assessments where it was decided not to issue an EHC plan
    • Children and young people assessed for whom a plan was issued and those for whom one not issued
  • Time period: 2014 to 2020

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• 06 - Work based placements, residential settings, designated medical and clinical officers - 2017 to 2021

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Number of children and young people with an EHC plan who are; on work based placements in residential settings

  • Number of rows: 809
  • 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 2021

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• 07 - Personal budgets and direct payments - 2015 to 2021

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Data on personal budgets and direct payments in place for EHC plans

  • Number of rows: 1,133
  • Indicators:
    • Number of personal budgets in place for all EHC plans
    • Number of personal budgets in place that have direct payment for an integrated payment
    • Number of personal budgets in place that have direct payment for education
  • Time period: 2015 to 2021

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• 02 - EHC plans - by establishment type - January 2010 to 2021

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Number of children and young people with an EHC plan, broken down by establishment type

  • Number of rows: 60,663
  • Indicators:
    • Number of EHC plans
    • Number of statements
    • Number of statements and EHC plans combined
  • Filters:
    • Establishment group
    • Establishment type
  • Time period: 2010 to 2021

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

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 (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in new tab). 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

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