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Special Educational Needs: Cambridgeshire

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 20 May 2025UIN 51559

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have (a) applied for and (b) had approved an Education, Health and Care Plan by Cambridgeshire County Council in each of the last five academic years.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell

The number of requests for an education, health and care (EHC) needs assessment, the number of assessments carried out and the number where an EHC plan has been issued are published for Cambridgeshire local authority, for each of the last five years (where available), in the following table: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/1a9ce774-d804-47af-1f6e-08dd8e2f6934.

Information on the number of requests where it was decided to carry out an EHC needs assessment was collected for the first time for the 2022 calendar year.

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