1) In the last available year, the total number of Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) applications within your local authority area rejected for children diagnosed with or suffering from cancer. Please could you also provide the percentage of rejected applications compared to the total number of applications for young cancer sufferers.
2) The total number of rejected EHCP applications for young cancer sufferers in the two years prior to that given above. Please disregard part 2 of this request if it exceeds the cost limit.
In response to Questions 1 and 2, we believe that compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time. This is because we do not record this level of detail on our systems. To locate and retrieve this information would require a manual review of each request and pupil record to provide this information – that is 2,161 EHCP requests and pupil records and an estimated review time of 30 mins each = 1,080 hours. Therefore, Section 12 is engaged.