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Number of personal budgets in place that have direct payment for an integrated payment (4861) Metric type
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- This is the number of personal budgets that are direct payments for integrated payment taken up by children and young people (aged 0-25) where an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan has been issued, transferred or reviewed in the year.
Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans were introduced from September 2014 as part of a range of SEND reforms. A pupil has a statement of SEN or an EHC plan when a local authority issues one following a formal assessment. This document sets out the child's needs and the extra help they'should receive. Statements of SEN were issued for children aged 0-19, EHC plans were extended to cover children and young people aged 0-25.
For those children and young people who have an EHC plan the LA can be required to identify a personal budget. This is the notional amount of money needed to make any of the special educational provision for them as specified in their EHC plan.
Parents or young people can also request that an LA consider making a direct payment to them in lieu of special educational provision so that they can arrange it themselves. This will be an actual payment of money instead of the LA arranging for the provision to be delivered.
Direct payments (including payments to nominees and third parties) can be made for: education; social care, health or integrated payment for a combination.
A personal budget can be a mixture of organised arrangements and direct payments, therefore it is possible for the sum of these to be greater than the total reported here.
Data are published as experimental statistics due to potential data quality issues. Totals may not appear to equal the sum of components parts because numbers have been rounded to the nearest 5. Values of 1 or 2 children or young people have been suppressed.
- Modified
- 18 May 2022
- Data last updated
- 23 Jun 2022
- Short label
- No. of personal budgets - direct integrated payment
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Count of Personal Budgets
- Dataset
- EHC plans personal budgets
- Collection
- Statements of SEN and EHC plans England
- Source
- Department for Education
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