Pupils: Dyspraxia

(asked on 2nd May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative estimate he has made of the number of school children with dyspraxia who are subject to Education Health Care Plans and those with statements under the previous SEN and learning difficulties assessments in each of the last five years.


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Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 14th May 2018

We publish the number and proportion of pupils with special educational needs (SEN), including the type of need in the annual ‘Special educational needs in England’ statistical release:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-special-educational-needs-sen.

Pupils with SEN are recorded according to their primary type of need. The current types of need were defined in 2015 and do not include a specific breakdown for dyspraxia alone. These cases are expected to be recorded under ‘Specific Learning Disability’. No estimates of the number of children with dyspraxia within this category have been made. Hearing Impairment is included as a type of need.

The table attached shows a breakdown of the number of pupils by each primary type of need available for the last five years (as at January each year).

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