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Number of new Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans issued within 20 weeks, excluding exceptions (4736) Metric type
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- This is the total number of children and young people (aged 0-25) issued with a new Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan within 20 weeks, excluding exceptions.
Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans for children and young people aged up to 25 were introduced on 1 September 2014 as part of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) provisions in the Children and Families Act 2014. From 1 September 2014, any children or young people who are newly referred to a local authority for assessment are considered under the new EHC plan assessment process. The legal test of when a child or young person requires an EHC plan remains the same as that for a statement under the Education Act 1996.
The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 set out the time limits for the process of assessing a child or young person's special educational needs (SEN) and drawing up an education, health and care (EHC) plan. The whole process from:
Day 1: when the local authority receive a formal request for an EHC needs assessment, or the local authority becomes responsible for the child or young person because he or she is in the authority's area and has been: identified by the authority as someone who has or may have special educational needs, or brought to the authority's attention by any person as someone who has or may have special educational needs. To the issue by the local authority of a finalised EHC plan must take no more than 20 weeks. The local authority needs to conclude this process as soon as is practicable, and in any case within that 20 weeks.
The key timescales, beginning in each case on Day 1, are: 6 weeks to make a decision whether or not an assessment is necessary and to communicate that decision to the parents of the child or to the young person; with the authority to do this as soon as is practicable and in any case before the end of that period; where a local authority decides following an assessment that it is not necessary for special educational provision to be made for a child or young person in accordance with an EHC plan, it must inform the parents of the child or the young person as soon as is practicable and in any case within 16 weeks; 20 weeks to finalise and issue a plan; with the authority to do this as soon as is practicable and in any case before the end of that period.
Where there are exceptional circumstances, it may not be reasonable to expect local authorities to comply with the time limits above. The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 set out in Regulations 5(4), 10(4) and 13(3) specific exemptions.
National and regional totals and total SEN across Local Authorities have been rounded to the nearest 5. Percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1. There may be discrepancies between totals and the sum of constituent parts. Where there were one or two children or young people in an area these have been supressed.
- Modified
- 18 May 2022
- Data last updated
- 23 Jun 2022
- Short label
- No. of new EHC plans issued within 20 weeks excluding exceptions
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Count of new EHC plans issued
- Dataset
- New EHC Plans issued within 20 weeks
- Collection
- Statements of SEN and EHC plans England
- Source
- Department for Education
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