1. How many education, health and care plan (EHCP) applications for assessment were there in 2020?
1693
2. How many were submitted for panel assessment?
1235
3. How many were refused?
466
4. Following refusal, how many went through the mediation process?
47
5. How many of those were overturned?
19
6. How many applications went to appeal?
115
7. Following appeal, how many were approved?
20
8. Between 2019 and 2023, how many staff dealt with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision students?
Devon County Council believes 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 the question does not apply solely to the SEN 0-25 team. It relates to many additional teams, all of which may or may not have had contact with SEND students. For example, some of the staff in one of the social workers team, may have had contact with a SEND student, but in order to search and ascertain this information, we would need to check the case file of every single child they had worked with in the last 4 years. This type of check would need to be done across 100’s of members of staff, checking 1000’s of files.
In the interests of providing advice and assistance, we are able to provide you with the following information, which relates solely to the SEN 0-25 team:
Caseworkers and their managers (full time equivalents)
2019 – 20
2020 – 20
2021 – 20
2022 – 32.1
2023 – 49.5