Special Educational Needs: Lancashire
(asked on 6th June 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with special needs or disabilities are in mainstream schools in (a) Lancashire and (b) Burnley.
The number of children with either Special Education Needs (SEN) support, a statement of SEN or an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan attending mainstream schools in (a) Lancashire and (b) Burnley are shown in the table below. These figures are from the January 2015 school census data. The figures for Lancashire can be found in tables 12 and 13 of the local authority tables which accompany the Special educational needs in England: 2015 publication, available on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2015.
The figures for Burnley can be found in the accompanying underlying data file.
Number of children with either SEN support, a statement of SEN or EHC plan by establishment type
| Lancashire Local Authority | Burnley Parliamentary Constituency |
State funded primary schools | 12,223 | 1,118 |
State funded secondary schools | 7,145 | 763 |
Total | 19,368 | 1,881 |
Source: schools census 2015. Rounding and suppression are used in the published underlying data file.