Special Educational Needs: Primary Education
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of primary school pupils have Education, Health and Care Plans in (a) Stockton West constituency and (b) England.
Answered by Georgia Gould
Information on pupils in schools who have education, health and care (EHC) plans is published as part of the statistical release ‘Special educational needs in England’, which can be found at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england/2024-25.
An extract showing the requested information for primary and secondary schools in England and Stockton West constituency is shown below:
| Number of pupils with an EHC plan | Percentage of pupils with an EHC plan |
England |
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State funded Primary schools | 157,716 | 3.5% |
State funded secondary schools | 113,452 | 3.1% |
Stockton West Constituency |
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State funded Primary schools | 244 | 2.7% |
State funded secondary schools | 310 | 3.1% |
1. Source: School Census | ||
Information on the number of young people with an EHC plan who attend further education colleges within the Stockton West constituency, and for England, is not currently available.
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