Dear Leicester City 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)?
2. How many children/young people within your Local Authority with an EHCP are registered as being electively home educated (as at Jan 25)?
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)
4. How many children/young people within your Local Authority have been awarded and currently access Personal Budgets for Education (as at Jan 25)?
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)?
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)?
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)?
8. What is the total annual cost of Personal Budgets for Education within your Local Authority (as at Jan 25)?
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)?

I very much appreciate your response in this matter.

Yours faithfully,

Sarah Lockwood