Dear Amelia Green

 

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period from 22 December 2023 - 2 January 2024. Any request received after
Monday 27 November 2023 is likely to be delayed as a result of this
holiday period. 

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

Tracy O'Hare

Information Management Officer

Wirral Council

PO Box 290

Brighton Street

Wallasey

CH27 9FQ

Email:[1][Wirral Borough Council request email]

Visit our website: [2]www.wirral.gov.uk

 

 

 

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Dear Ms Green

 

Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding. We have been
awaiting some final information to complete your enquiry but in the
interim, please see the information we have been able to collate below. A
supplementary response will be issued once we have the remaining
information.

 

1.            How many children have an EHCP?

 

• Mainstream -  (This can be academy, Free or LA maintained) – Primary –
845/Secondary – 683

 

• Grammar School/ Selective – Primary – Suppressed/Secondary – 23

 

• Private Independent Mainstream (NOT special) - Primary – 13/Secondary –
25

 

• Specialist Resource Base/Provision or SEN unit - If so, what is the
primary area of need

Resourced Provision - Primary – Suppressed /Secondary – 48 

SEN Unit – Primary 70 / Secondary – 0

 

• Special School (Academy, Free, LA maintained) - Primary – 702 /Secondary
– 734

• Independent Special School (maintained or non-maintained) - Primary – 7
/Secondary – 46

• Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) - 0

• Alternative Provision   - 6

 

• Educated Otherwise than At School (EOTAS) - Section I is blank or states
EOTAS - 2

• Electively Home Educated (EHE) - 17

• No placement available - INFORMATION TO FOLLOW

• Other

• Don't know

• No current base – Primary 21 /Secondary 39

 

2. How many children identified as autistic do not have an EHCP?

Primary – 195

Secondary - 296

 

3. How many of these EHCPs identify ASD, ASC or Autism as a need or
diagnosis?

Primary – 339

Secondary -  394

 

• Mainstream -  (This can be academy, Free or LA maintained)

Primary – 171 / Secondary  - 145

 

• Grammar School

Primary – 0 / Secondary  - 7

 

• Private Independent Mainstream (NOT special)

Primary – 5 / Secondary  - 7

 

• Specialist Resource Base/Provision or SEN unit - If so, what is the
primary area of need

Resourced Provision - Primary – 0/Secondary – 12

SEN Unit – Primary 9  - Secondary – 0

 

• Special School (Academy, Free, LA maintained)

Primary – 153 /Secondary – 220

 

• Independent Special School (maintained or non-maintained)

Primary – Suppressed/Secondary – 5

• Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) 0

• Alternative Provision – no figures held on autism

 

• Educated Otherwise than At School (EOTAS) - Section I is blank or states
EOTAS - 2

• Electively Home Educated (EHE) - 4

• No placement available - INFORMATION TO FOLLOW

• Other

• Don't know

• No current base – Primary Suppressed/Secondary 8

 

 

4. For the EHCPs that have Autism (ASD/ASC) identified, what is the type
of educational setting they attend (type of school named in Section I).

We do not currently have the report available to answer this question, the
manual process required will take longer than the 18.5 hours.

 

5. For the EHCPs that have Autism (ASD/ASC) identified, how many mention
that a child has demand avoidance, identifiable by any of the following
terms being used in any section of the EHCP:

This would mean going through 1000s of EHCPs individually which would not
be possible to do in the time frame

 

○ Demand Avoidance

                                ○ Pathological Demand Avoidance

                                ○ PDA

                                ○ Extreme demand avoidance.

                                ○ Avoids everyday demands or activities

 

6. For these EHCPs that have demand avoidance mentioned, what is type of
educational setting they attend (type of school named in Section I).
Please use the above list to categorise setting type - We use whatever the
report suggests but bearing in mind PDA is not a recognised condition by
the NHS.  We may use displays tendencies of, suggests possible etc…rather
than definitely asserting they have PDA.

 

7. Does your LA use the term 'Pathological Demand Avoidance' or 'PDA' or
'autism with a demand avoidant profile' in EHCPs if provided in a
professional report? As above.

 

8. If these terms in question 7 are not used, what is the reason for this?
As above.

 

For q4 and 5 above, we rely upon Section 12 of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 which states that public authorities are not required to comply
with a request for information if it is estimated that to do so would
exceed the appropriate limit of 18.5 hours. As we are unable to extract
the required information electronically, a manual review would need to be
undertaken of each record and it is estimated that this would take the
time spent on your request over the time limit. We rely on Section 12 (1)
to refuse these parts of your request.

 

You have the right under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
to ask for an internal review of the refusal of the information requested.
Please direct any request for an internal review to
[1][Wirral Borough Council request email] and your request will be allocated to
another officer for review. If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of an
internal review you also have the right to complain to the information
Commissioner, who can be contacted at
[2]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

 

Yours sincerely

 

Lynette Paterson

Principal Information Management Officer

Finance – Digital and Improvement

Wirral Council

PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ

 

Email: [3][Wirral Borough Council request email]

 

Visit our website: [4]www.wirral.gov.uk

 

 

 

 

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Dear Ms Green

 

To conclude this enquiry we have been advised by our SEN Team that there
is a zero response to the remaining enquiries.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Lynette Paterson

Principal Information Management Officer

Finance – Digital and Improvement

Wirral Council

PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ

 

Email: [1][Wirral Borough Council request email]

 

Visit our website: [2]www.wirral.gov.uk

 

 

 

 

From: InfoMgr, FinDMT <[Wirral Borough Council request email]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 8:57 AM
To: Amelia Green <[FOI #1061115 email]>; InfoMgr,
FinDMT <[Wirral Borough Council request email]>
Subject: FOIA 1675911

 

Dear Ms Green

 

Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding. We have been
awaiting some final information to complete your enquiry but in the
interim, please see the information we have been able to collate below. A
supplementary response will be issued once we have the remaining
information.

 

1.            How many children have an EHCP?

 

• Mainstream -  (This can be academy, Free or LA maintained) – Primary –
845/Secondary – 683

 

• Grammar School/ Selective – Primary – Suppressed/Secondary – 23

 

• Private Independent Mainstream (NOT special) - Primary – 13/Secondary –
25

 

• Specialist Resource Base/Provision or SEN unit - If so, what is the
primary area of need

Resourced Provision - Primary – Suppressed /Secondary – 48 

SEN Unit – Primary 70 / Secondary – 0

 

• Special School (Academy, Free, LA maintained) - Primary – 702 /Secondary
– 734

• Independent Special School (maintained or non-maintained) - Primary – 7
/Secondary – 46

• Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) - 0

• Alternative Provision   - 6

 

• Educated Otherwise than At School (EOTAS) - Section I is blank or states
EOTAS - 2

• Electively Home Educated (EHE) - 17

• No placement available - INFORMATION TO FOLLOW

• Other

• Don't know

• No current base – Primary 21 /Secondary 39

 

2. How many children identified as autistic do not have an EHCP?

Primary – 195

Secondary - 296

 

3. How many of these EHCPs identify ASD, ASC or Autism as a need or
diagnosis?

Primary – 339

Secondary -  394

 

• Mainstream -  (This can be academy, Free or LA maintained)

Primary – 171 / Secondary  - 145

 

• Grammar School

Primary – 0 / Secondary  - 7

 

• Private Independent Mainstream (NOT special)

Primary – 5 / Secondary  - 7

 

• Specialist Resource Base/Provision or SEN unit - If so, what is the
primary area of need

Resourced Provision - Primary – 0/Secondary – 12

SEN Unit – Primary 9  - Secondary – 0

 

• Special School (Academy, Free, LA maintained)

Primary – 153 /Secondary – 220

 

• Independent Special School (maintained or non-maintained)

Primary – Suppressed/Secondary – 5

• Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) 0

• Alternative Provision – no figures held on autism

 

• Educated Otherwise than At School (EOTAS) - Section I is blank or states
EOTAS - 2

• Electively Home Educated (EHE) - 4

• No placement available - INFORMATION TO FOLLOW

• Other

• Don't know

• No current base – Primary Suppressed/Secondary 8

 

 

4. For the EHCPs that have Autism (ASD/ASC) identified, what is the type
of educational setting they attend (type of school named in Section I).

We do not currently have the report available to answer this question, the
manual process required will take longer than the 18.5 hours.

 

5. For the EHCPs that have Autism (ASD/ASC) identified, how many mention
that a child has demand avoidance, identifiable by any of the following
terms being used in any section of the EHCP:

This would mean going through 1000s of EHCPs individually which would not
be possible to do in the time frame

 

○ Demand Avoidance

                                ○ Pathological Demand Avoidance

                                ○ PDA

                                ○ Extreme demand avoidance.

                                ○ Avoids everyday demands or activities

 

6. For these EHCPs that have demand avoidance mentioned, what is type of
educational setting they attend (type of school named in Section I).
Please use the above list to categorise setting type - We use whatever the
report suggests but bearing in mind PDA is not a recognised condition by
the NHS.  We may use displays tendencies of, suggests possible etc…rather
than definitely asserting they have PDA.

 

7. Does your LA use the term 'Pathological Demand Avoidance' or 'PDA' or
'autism with a demand avoidant profile' in EHCPs if provided in a
professional report? As above.

 

8. If these terms in question 7 are not used, what is the reason for this?
As above.

 

For q4 and 5 above, we rely upon Section 12 of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 which states that public authorities are not required to comply
with a request for information if it is estimated that to do so would
exceed the appropriate limit of 18.5 hours. As we are unable to extract
the required information electronically, a manual review would need to be
undertaken of each record and it is estimated that this would take the
time spent on your request over the time limit. We rely on Section 12 (1)
to refuse these parts of your request.

 

You have the right under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
to ask for an internal review of the refusal of the information requested.
Please direct any request for an internal review to
[3][Wirral Borough Council request email] and your request will be allocated to
another officer for review. If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of an
internal review you also have the right to complain to the information
Commissioner, who can be contacted at
[4]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

 

Yours sincerely

 

Lynette Paterson

Principal Information Management Officer

Finance – Digital and Improvement

Wirral Council

PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ

 

Email: [5][Wirral Borough Council request email]

 

Visit our website: [6]www.wirral.gov.uk

 

 

 

 

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