Q1) How many requests have you had asking for a child with Special Educational Needs to leave a mainstream school and be placed in a special school for those with special educational needs, in your local authority, in the following financial years?
a) 2018/19
b) 2019/20
c) 2020/21
Q2) How many of the requests in Q1 were for
a) Independent Schools
b) Grant aided Schools
c) Education authority special schools
Please break down in the following financial years
a) 2018/19
b) 2019/20
c) 2020/21
In respect of questions 1 and 2, we do not hold a central record of this information. To extract this information would require a review of approximately 1,000 files for each year requested. Allowing for, say, 10 minutes per file, this would take a total of 500 hours for the three years requested. This is in excess of the appropriate limit and we are therefore not obliged to provide this information pursuant to s.18 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Q3) How many of those refused a placement by the Local authority made it to a tribunal?
Please break this down by school type
a) Independent Schools
b) Grant aided Schools
c) Education authority special schools
Please break down in the following financial years
The totals for the years are as follows:
a) 2018/19 = 4
b) 2019/20 = 22
c) 2020/21 = 26
We do not hold the information on what kind of placement is being appealed.
Q4) How many tribunals found in favour of the applicant?
Please break this down by school type and year;
a) Independent Schools
b) Grant aided Schools
c) Education authority special schools
Please break down in the following financial years
The totals for the years are as follows:
a) 2018/19 = 2
b) 2019/20 = 22
c) 2020/21 = 21
We do not hold the information on what kind of placement is being appealed.