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PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL Lily Kerrigan
24 September 2021
Dear Lily Kerrigan
Freedom of Information Act 2000, Reference: FOI-10226-2021 The council has completed its search relating to your request about educational placements for children with
an EHCP received on Wed, 01 Sep 2021.
Request Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like you to supply me with the information requested for
the previous academic year – 2020/2021.
Please can you provide me with the name of the current educational placement (school) of any young people,
16 years of age and under, with educational health care (EHCP) plans or statements, placed in independent
or non-maintained provision?
I would ask you to provide the information in an excel document, broken down under the fol owing headings:
Category of Need (SEMH, ASD, etc.)
Name of School
Type of placement - (Day or residential placement)
Cost of placement per year
Response The council does hold information within the definition of your request.
See attached spreadsheet
Please note: As the Council’s accounts are prepared on a financial basis the figures are for costs incurred in
the financial year 2020/21 ending 31 March 2021 and includes children aged 16 and under as at 31 March
2021. Where the costs in the year relate to more than one placement the number of placements have been
included. As the costs shown relate to the costs due in the financial year they include part-year costs for 1/2
placements that have started or ended during the financial year therefore the number of ful time equivalent
placements have been provided. Please also see definition for each category of need listed.
Disclaimer Most of the information that we provide in response to requests submitted under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004 wil be subject to copyright protection. In most
cases the copyright wil be owned by Cumbria County Council. However the copyright in other information
may be owned by another person or organisation, as indicated on the information itself.
You are free to use any information supplied in this response for your own non-commercial research or private
study purposes. The information may also be used for any other purpose al owed by a limitation or exception
in copyright law, such as news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for example by publishing the
information in analogue or digital form, including on the internet, wil require the permission of the copyright
owner. Where the copyright owner is the council you wil need to make an application under the Re-use of
Public Sector Information Regulations 2005.
For information where the copyright is owned by another person or organisation you must apply to the owner
to obtain their permission.
If you are dissatisfied with the way the council has responded to your request you can request an Internal
Review. If you would like to request a Review please contact the Information Governance Team using the
details at the top of this letter.
If you have any issues relating to this letter you should attempt to resolve them, in the first instance, with the
council, by requesting an Internal Review. If you would like to request a Review please contact the
Information Governance Team using the details at the top of this letter.
Further information can be found on the council’s website: http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/council-
democracy/accesstoinformation/internalreviewscomplaints.asp
Yours sincerely
Information Governance Team
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