Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with SEND have not been transferred to Education and Health Care Plans.
The latest published figures, as at 19 January 2017, show that there were 112,057 children or young people with a Statement of SEN (39%) and 175,233 children or young people with an EHC plan (61%).
The department collects annual data from local authorities on the number of Statements of Special Educational Need (SEN) and Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans that each local authority maintains. This data is published in the statistical first release “Statements of SEN and EHC plans: England”.
The latest figures are available in Table 1 of the Main Tables on the department’s website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2017.