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Special Educational Needs provision in Manchester

Michelle Daniel made this Freedom of Information request to Manchester City Council

The request was successful.

From: Michelle Daniel

31 August 2010

Dear Manchester City Council,

The government has announced it’s launching a Green Paper in the
autumn to look at a wide range of issues for children with SEN and
disabilities
They’re promising to listen to the views of parents, teachers and
organisations with an interest in this area all of whom have
complained of not being listened to in the past. Overall the
government says the system needs to be far more transparent and
parents need to be given more choice be involved in the
decision-making process.
With this open approach in mind I should like the answers to the
following with specific reference to Manchester:

* How many primary aged children in Manchester have been identified
as being on the SEN spectrum?

* How many secondary aged children in Manchester have been
identified as being on the SEN spectrum?

* How many primary aged children are in specialists units versus
mainstream education?

* How many secondary aged children are in specialists units versus
mainstream education?

* How much is spent on supporting SEN children in mainstream
primary education?

* How much is spent on supporting SEN children in mainstream
secondary education?

* How many primary aged children in Manchester are being educated
in specialist units?

* How many secondary aged children in Manchester are being educated
in specialist units?

* In the last 5 years how many children have been transferred from
Specialist units to mainstream education?

Yours faithfully,

Michelle Daniel

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Manchester City Council

1 September 2010

Dear Ms Daniel,

Re: Request for Information - SEN information - Reference Number:
CHS/88VDKR

Thank you for your request for information, which was received by
Manchester City Council on 31 August 2010.

It may take up to 20 working days (approximately 4 weeks) for the Council
to consider your request and to provide a formal response. If this
timescale needs to be extended to consider an exemption you will be
notified and kept informed.

Please be advised that there may be a charge for your request. You will be
advised of this in due course.

If you have any queries, please contact me on the number above.

Yours sincerely,

Mick Wilson
Customer and Business Support Manager
Customer & Business Support
Manchester City Council Children's Services
Overseas House
Quay Street
Manchester, M3 3BB
Tel: 0161 234 7228
Internal: 801 7228
Textphone: 0161 234 7452
Fax: 0161 274 7070
Email: [email address]

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Manchester City Council

30 September 2010

Dear Ms Daniel,

Thank you for your request for information, which was received by
Manchester City Council on 31 August 2010.

Under the Freedom of Information Act we are obliged to provide the
information requested within 20 working days. Unfortunately, the team this
request has been allocated to were in this case unable to provide the
information on time as they are still carrying out searches for some
relevant information. Please accept our apologies for this delay.

We are working with the team to ensure that a response can be sent to you
as soon as possible.

If you have any queries, please contact me on the number above, and quote
reference number CHS/88VDKR
Yours sincerely,

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Manchester City Council

17 December 2010

Dear Ms Daniel,

Re: Request for Information - Special Education Needs Data - Reference
Number: CHS/88VDKR

Thank you for your request for information, which was received by
Manchester City Council on 31 August 2010 and has been considered under
the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I apologise for
the delay responding to your request.

In response to your request, I have summarised the information as follows.

1. 8699
2. 5376
3. 41623 *** mainstream schools, 394 *** specialist schools
4. 19013 *** mainstream schools, 648 *** specialist schools
5. **10.556M from centrally managed budgets (i.e. not delegated) for
primary and secondary age pupils. **4.932M delegated to primary schools.
6. **4.638M delegated to secondary schools. Total SEN spend **20.126M
7. See question 3
8. See question 4
9.49

This information may be subject to copyright. Freedom of Information does
not give you an automatic right to re-use this information in a way that
would infringe copyright, for example, by publishing the information or
making multiple copies.

Please note if you are not satisfied with this response you may ask for an
internal review. If you wish to complain you should contact Lynn Evans,
Information Compliance Officer ([Manchester City Council request email])
in the first instance. If you require more information about the
Council***s access to information complaints procedure this can be
downloaded from
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/script...

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

Yours sincerely,

Jenny Andrews
Head of Education Services (Strategic Inclusion)

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