Education

  • Specialist Placements

    Please provide the following data regarding children for whom your Local Education Authority has issued or maintained the Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans in 2022-2024: 1. Number of parental requests (aka expressed preference) for a specialist school placement made … Continue reading →

  • School Deferral requests

    I am looking for the figures for deferral requests for children who turned four between April 1 and August 31 in 2022, 2023, 2024. That would mean delayed to September 2023, delayed to September 2024 and delayed to September 2025. … Continue reading →

  • Early Years SEND funding

    This request is in regards to funding early years settings have received from the council for children with special educational needs (SEND). It is for pre-schools and nurseries. Please could you state the total amount of money you have had … Continue reading →

  • Alternative Provision Placements

    For each of the last five financial years (2020/21 to 2024/25), please provide a breakdown of all Alternative Provision (AP) placements commissioned by your local authority with independent providers (i.e. not state-maintained or academy PRUs). For each provider commissioned in … Continue reading →

  • SEN transport

    Please can you provide the LA table for funding period 2024/2025. Department for Education Section 251 Financial Data Collection. I am particularly interested in the SEN transport spend for: 2.1.4 Home to school transport (pre 16): SEN transport expenditure 2.1.6 … Continue reading →

  • Alternative Provision tutoring and mentoring

    Please may you provide me with the following information, relating to Alternative Provision (AP) tuition and mentoring arranged by the Local Authority which is external.  1. The total number of children and young people who undertook external Alternative Provision tutoring … Continue reading →

  • Special Education Needs – Ombudsman Claims

    Please provide information under the Freedom of Information legislation in relation the cases raised with local government ombudsman scheme for the number of cases that the authority has had referred to it or been notified of for special educational needs … Continue reading →

  • Knives in schools

    1. In the financial years 21/22, 22/23, 23/24 and 24/25, how many instances of a pupil coming into school with a knife or other sharp implement have been recorded at your school? (If you are a local authority/academy trust, please … Continue reading →

  • Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

    The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is due to give local authorities greater powers to prevent good/popular schools from expanding, on the grounds that such expansion would undermine bad/unpopular schools – which might cease to be viable and have to … Continue reading →