Special Educational Needs: Academies and Maintained Schools
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment she has made of trends in the level of children identified with special educational needs in (a) local authority maintained schools and (b) academies.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell
Information on the numbers of pupils in schools in England with education, health and care (EHC) plans, and special educational needs (SEN) without an EHC plan, by the type of school attended in the academic years 2015/16 to 2023/24, is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/18296cee-15b6-4a0d-e280-08dd5a6d191a.
Further information on the numbers of pupils with SEN is available in the statistical publication ‘Special Educational Needs in England’, is accessible at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/special-educational-needs-in-england.
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