Autistic children and school placement type
Dear Luton Borough Council,
Can you please provide me with the data for school aged children in the year 2023 to answer the questions below broken down by ages:
5-10 (Primary)
11-15/16 years (Secondary)
For questions 3 and 5, please use the below list to categorise the setting type:
• Mainstream - (This can be academy, Free or LA maintained)
• Grammar School
• Private Independent Mainstream (NOT special)
• Specialist Resource Base/Provision or SEN unit - If so, what is the primary area of need
• Special School (Academy, Free, LA maintained)
• Independent Special School (maintained or non-maintained)
• Pupil Referral Unit (PRU)
• Alternative Provision
• Educated Otherwise than At School (EOTAS) - Section I is blank or states EOTAS
• Electively Home Educated (EHE)
• No placement available
• Other
• Don't know
Please provide the data as detailed above for the following 8 questions:
1. How many children have an EHCP?
2. How many children identified as autistic do not have an EHCP?
3. How many of these EHCPs identify ASD, ASC or Autism as a need or diagnosis?
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).
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:
○ 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
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?
8. If these terms in question 7 are not used, what is the reason for this?
Yours faithfully,
Amelia Green
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Reference: LU12840
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Dear Luton Borough Council,
Thank you for your response.
Would you be able to confirm the number of primary age and then the number of secondary age (with a primary needs of ASC) that are placed in non-maintained special schools including Academies.
Yours faithfully,
Amelia Green
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Reference: LU13443
Dear Amelia Green (request-1061041-9a1f1fdd)
Your Freedom of Information Request - Acknowledgement.
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Yours sincerely
Sarah Cave
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Dear Luton Borough Council,
This query is clarification of the original request FOI LU12840, but is being handled as a new response.
Would you be able to simply confirm the number of primary age and then the number of secondary age for setting type ‘special school’ - All other data were provided correctly, it was only this one that combined primary and secondary ages and requires clarification.
Yours faithfully,
Amelia Green
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Are you able to please provide me with just the two figures for the question:
Yours sincerely,
Amelia Green
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Good morning
Please see attached my previous email which I understand you couldn’t
open.
Kind regards
Sarah Cave
Good morning
Please find attached information related to your recent request for
information.
Kind regards
LJELLis
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