Data set from Special educational needs in England

05 - Secondary need, by type of SEN provision and type of need - 2016 to 2021

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Published 24 June 2021

Last updated 24 June 2021

Number of pupils in state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, non-maintained special schools and pupil referral units by SEN provision, primary type of need and secondary type of need

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Special educational needs in England
• Release: Academic year 2020/21
• Number of rows: 187,603
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Autistic Spectrum Disorder
  • Autistic Spectrum Disorder (%)
  • Headcount
  • Hearing impairment
  • Hearing impairment (%)
  • Moderate Learning Difficulty
  • Moderate Learning Difficulty (%)
  • Multi-sensory Impairment
  • Multi-sensory Impairment (%)
  • Other Difficulty or Disability
  • Other Difficulty or Disability (%)
  • Physical Disability
  • Physical Disability (%)
  • Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
  • Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty (%)
  • SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need
  • SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need (%)
  • Severe Learning Difficulty
  • Severe Learning Difficulty (%)
  • Social, Emotional and Mental Health
  • Social, Emotional and Mental Health (%)
  • Specific Learning Difficulty
  • Specific Learning Difficulty (%)
  • Speech, Language and Communications needs
  • Speech, Language and Communications needs (%)
  • Visual impairment
  • Visual impairment (%)
• Filters:
  • Phase type of school
  • Primary type of need
  • SEN provision
• Time period: 2015/16 to 2020/21

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Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_name	region_code	old_la_code	la_name	new_la_code	phase_type_grouping	pupil_sen_status	primary_need	number_of_pupils	secondary_need_SPLD	secondary_need_MLD	secondary_need_SLD	secondary_need_PMLD	secondary_need_SEMH	secondary_need_SLCN	secondary_need_HI	secondary_need_VI	secondary_need_MSI	secondary_need_PD	secondary_need_ASD	secondary_need_OTH	secondary_need_NSA	secondary_need_SPLD_percent	secondary_need_MLD_percent	secondary_need_SLD_percent	secondary_need_PMLD_percent	secondary_need_SEMH_percent	secondary_need_SLCN_percent	secondary_need_HI_percent	secondary_need_VI_percent	secondary_need_MSI_percent	secondary_need_PD_percent	secondary_need_ASD_percent	secondary_need_OTH_percent	secondary_need_NSA_percent
202021	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	South West	E12000009	865	Wiltshire	E06000054	State-funded primary	Total	Severe Learning Difficulty	48	0	1	0	0	1	14	2	1	0	1	2	1	0	0	2.083333333	0	0	2.083333333	29.16666667	4.166666667	2.083333333	0	2.083333333	4.166666667	2.083333333	0
202021	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	South East	E12000008	871	Slough	E06000039	Pupil referral unit	Total	Moderate Learning Difficulty	5	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	40	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
202021	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	Yorkshire and The Humber	E12000003	381	Calderdale	E08000033	State-funded secondary	Total	Speech, Language and Communications needs	193	12	33	1	0	11	0	2	0	0	4	8	8	1	6.21761658	17.0984456	0.518134715	0	5.699481865	0	1.03626943	0	0	2.07253886	4.14507772	4.14507772	0.518134715
202021	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	South West	E12000009	879	Plymouth	E06000026	State-funded special school	Total	Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulty	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14.28571429	0	42.85714286	0	0	0
202021	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	South East	E12000008	870	Reading	E06000038	State-funded nursery	Total	Speech, Language and Communications needs	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 30 variables

Variable name	Variable description
number_of_pupils	Headcount
phase_type_grouping	Phase type of school - Phase (primary, secondary, special, PRU, independent)
primary_need	Primary type of need - (ASD, HI, VI…)
pupil_sen_status	SEN provision - EHC plan/Statement of SEN or SEN support/School Action/School Action plus
secondary_need_ASD	Autistic Spectrum Disorder
secondary_need_ASD_percent	Autistic Spectrum Disorder (%)
secondary_need_HI	Hearing impairment
secondary_need_HI_percent	Hearing impairment (%)
secondary_need_MLD	Moderate Learning Difficulty
secondary_need_MLD_percent	Moderate Learning Difficulty (%)
secondary_need_MSI	Multi-sensory Impairment
secondary_need_MSI_percent	Multi-sensory Impairment (%)
secondary_need_NSA	SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need
secondary_need_NSA_percent	SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need (%)
secondary_need_OTH	Other Difficulty or Disability
secondary_need_OTH_percent	Other Difficulty or Disability (%)
secondary_need_PD	Physical Disability
secondary_need_PD_percent	Physical Disability (%)
secondary_need_PMLD	Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
secondary_need_PMLD_percent	Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty (%)
secondary_need_SEMH	Social, Emotional and Mental Health
secondary_need_SEMH_percent	Social, Emotional and Mental Health (%)
secondary_need_SLCN	Speech, Language and Communications needs
secondary_need_SLCN_percent	Speech, Language and Communications needs (%)
secondary_need_SLD	Severe Learning Difficulty
secondary_need_SLD_percent	Severe Learning Difficulty (%)
secondary_need_SPLD	Specific Learning Difficulty
secondary_need_SPLD_percent	Specific Learning Difficulty (%)
secondary_need_VI	Visual impairment
secondary_need_VI_percent	Visual impairment (%)

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Footnotes

1. Totals include state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, non-maintained special schools and pupil referral units. Does not include independent schools

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