Special Educational Needs: Gloucestershire
(asked on 19th November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of education, health and care (EHC) plans produced by Gloucestershire County Council in each of the last three years; and on how many occasions that Council did (a) not proceed with an EHC Needs Assessment, (b) not produce an EHC plan when one had been requested and (c) receive an appeal against the support included in the plan in each of the last three years.
The number of initial requests for assessment for an education, health and care (EHC) plan that were refused during the calendar year and the number of children and young people assessed during the calendar year for whom it was decided not to issue an EHC plan are shown in the table below for Gloucestershire local authority for the calendar years 2015 to 2017.
Gloucestershire local authority, 2015 to 2017 calendar years.
| Calendar Year 2015 | Calendar Year 2016 | Calendar Year 2017 |
Number of children and young | 240 | 373 | 514 |
Number of initial requests for assessment for an EHC plan that were refused during the calendar year | 25 | 0 | 0 |
Number of children and young people assessed during the calendar year for whom it was decided not to issue an EHC plan | 10 | 22 | 19 |
Source: SEN2 data collection
The information requested on the number of appeals against the support included in the plan in each of the last three years is not held centrally.