Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were refused an education, health and care plan assessment by their local authority in the last financial year.

The department collects information on the number of requests for an education, health and care (EHC) needs assessment, the number of EHC needs assessments, and the outcome of these requests and assessments.

This information can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/3216aeea-b67c-4fc7-e256-08dd5a6d191a.

These figures and are the most up to date we hold and refer to the 2023 calendar year. We do not hold information on a financial year basis.

Information on EHC plans maintained by local authorities, including requests for needs assessments, decisions made to assess and the number of plans issued is included in the statistical release, ‘Education, health and care plans’. The full publication can be read here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans.