Personal Budgets in Education 2025

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Hi Sarah,
Thank you for your recent Freedom of information request, I have provided
the answers to you questions below:

Dear St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council, Personal Budgets for
Education January 2025 update (information previously accessed January
2024) Please could you answer the following questions in relation to your
Local Education Authority:- 

1. How many children/young people within your Local Authority with an EHCP
have no school or setting named in Section I of their Plan (as at Jan 25)?

0

2. How many children/young people within your Local Authority with an EHCP
are registered as being electively home educated (as at Jan 25)?

23

3. How many children/young people within your Local Authority with an EHCP
are registered as EOTAS/EOTIS/EOTIC (Educated Otherwise Than In a School
or College as per Section 61 of the Children & Families Act 2014) (as
at Jan 25)

5

4. How many children/young people within your Local Authority have been
awarded and currently access Personal Budgets for Education (as at Jan
25)?

3

5. How many of the Personal Budgets for Education currently accessed have
been provided as part of an Education Otherwise Than At/In School or
College (EOTAS(C)/EOTIS(C)) provision described in their Education Health
and Care Plan (as at Jan 25)?

 2 

6. How many of the Personal Budgets for Education currently accessed have
been awarded to children/young people who are being Electively Home
Educated (EHE) (as at Jan 25)?

1

7. How many of the Personal Budgets for Education currently being accessed
are awarded in the form of Direct Payments to families (as at Jan 25)?

2

8. What is the total annual cost of Personal Budgets for Education within
your Local Authority (as at Jan 25)?

£57714.51

9. What is the total annual cost of Personal Budgets for Education
allocated as Direct Payments to families within your Local Authority (as
at Jan 25)?

 £22741.01

 
I trust this will be of use.
Tom Howard
Head of SEND, Intervention & Inclusion
Children's & Young People Services
Atlas House,
Corporation Street
St Helens,
Merseyside
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