Hospital Schools (Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND))

Please can you provide the following information:

1. How many children and young people did you place at your local hospital school as part of the EHCP process in 2018-19, 2021-22 and 2022-23, either via Local Authority (LA) direction or any other LA run mechanism such as Decision Making Groups?

The hospital school is a medical placement and Devon County Council does not place there as part of the EHCP process.

2. How many SEND tribunal hearings took place where a parent sought a placement at your hospital school in each of the years 2018-19, 2021-22 and 2022-23?

N/A.

3. Where children and young people with an EHCP were placed at your hospital school in the academic year 2022-23, either via LA mechanisms or SEND tribunal hearings, what proportion of these students were additionally funded (over and above the hospital school’s block funding from the Department of Education) in order to ensure that the hospital school could meet the child’s needs?

N/A.