Special Educational Needs and Disability

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Dear Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council,

I am currently trying to research the demands on local authorities and parents of the current special educational needs system and would be grateful if you could respond to this data set of questions.

1. Current Number of Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP’s)

2. Current Number of EHCP’s by age
0 – 5
5 – 11
11 – 16
16 – 19
19 - 25

3. Number of First Tier tribunals registered in the year 2018?
4. Number of First Tier tribunals registered to date 2019?
5. Number of mediation certificates issued in 2018?
6. Number of mediation certificates issued in 2019 to date?
7. Number of EHCP’s completed within the 20-week timescale in 2018?
8. Number of EHCP needs assessment requests in 2018?
9. Number of EHCP needs assessment requests in 2019?
10. % of EHCP requests approved for needs assessment
11. Number of EHCP needs assessment requests in 2019 to date
12. Number of Children at SEN Support
13. Number of Children Home Educated with SEND
14. Current number of children and Young People with EHCPs without a school place.
15. % of EHCP’s for year 6 pupils finalised by 15th February 2019
16. % of EHCP’s for Year 11 pupils finalised by 31st March 2019

Yours faithfully,

Sally Holt

Data Protection, Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council

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Children Families & Wellbeing FOI, Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Ms Holt

I am writing in response to your Freedom of Information Request dated 8th May 2019.

Please see the Council's response

1. Current Number of Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP’s) = 1889

2. Current Number of EHCP’s by age -

0 – 5
5 – 11
11 – 16
16 – 19
19 - 25

We have amended the breakdown for this question to avoid double counting:

0 - 5 = 106
6 - 11 = 649
12 - 16 = 676
17 - 19 = 354
20 - 25 = 104

3. Number of First Tier tribunals registered in the year 2018? 26
4. Number of First Tier tribunals registered to date 2019? - 4
5. Number of mediation certificates issued in 2018? - 15
6. Number of mediation certificates issued in 2019 to date? - 3
7. Number of EHCP’s completed within the 20-week timescale in 2018? - 47
8. Number of EHCP needs assessment requests in 2018? - 331
9. Number of EHCP needs assessment requests in 2019? - 163
10. % of EHCP requests approved for needs assessment - 2018 - 84%
11. Number of EHCP needs assessment requests in 2019 to date - duplicate of question 9
12. Number of Children at SEN Support - 4021
13. Number of Children Home Educated with SEND - 7
14. Current number of children and Young People with EHCPs without a school place. - 6 - these YP are accessing education through alternative provision whilst waiting for a school place
15. % of EHCP’s for year 6 pupils finalised by 15th February 2019 - 76%
16. % of EHCP’s for Year 11 pupils finalised by 31st March 2019 - 63%

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Kind Regards

Tracy

Tracy Tarry
FOI Business Support Officer
Trafford Council
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