Data set from Education, health and care plans

Number of new EHC plans during the calendar year

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Published 26 June 2025

Last updated 12 January 2026

The number of EHC plans which start each year. The number of new plans is shown for the type of setting attended, broken down by the age when the plan started, ethnicity and sex. Data is shown on a calendar year basis.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Education, health and care plans
• Release: Reporting year 2025
• Number of rows: 17,809
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Total number of new EHC plans
  • Mainstream LA maintained schools
  • Mainstream LA maintained schools - SEN units
  • Mainstream LA maintained schools - resourced provision
  • Mainstream academies
  • Mainstream academies - SEN units
  • Mainstream academies - resourced provision
  • Mainstream free schools
  • Mainstream free schools - SEN units
  • Mainstream free schools - resourced provision
  • Mainstream independent schools
  • Total mainstream schools
  • Total percentage mainstream schools
  • LA maintained special schools
  • Special academies and free schools
  • Non maintained special schools
  • Independent special schools
  • Total special schools
  • Total percentage special schools
  • Pupil referral units
  • Alternative provision academies
  • Alternative provision free schools
  • Total alternative provision
  • Total percentage alternative provision
  • FE colleges and sixth forms
  • Specialist post 16 establishments
  • UKRLP providers
  • Total further education and post 16
  • Total percentage further education and post 16
  • Elective home education
  • Other arrangements made by LA
  • Other arrangements made by parents
  • Online providers
  • Other school types
  • Other types of placement
  • Welsh schools and establishments
  • Not in employment, education or training
  • Not in education or training – notice to cease issued
  • Not in education or training – compulsory school age
  • Not in education or training – other age groups
  • Total educated elsewhere
  • Total percentage educated elsewhere
  • Non maintained early years
  • Non maintained early years percentage
  • Placement not recorded
  • Placement not recorded percentage
  • Awaiting provision (pre 2023 only)
  • Permanently excluded (pre 2023 only)
• Filters:
  • Characteristics of child or young person with new EHC plan
• Time period: 2019 to 2024

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	new_la_code	old_la_code	la_name	breakdown_topic	breakdown	new_ehc_plans	mainstream_la_maintained	mainstream_la_maintained_resourced_provision	mainstream_la_maintained_senunit	mainstream_academy	mainstream_academy_resourced_provision	mainstream_academy_senunit	mainstream_free_school	mainstream_free_school_resourced_provision	mainstream_free_school_senunit	mainstream_independent	mainstream_total	mainstream_total_pc	special_la_maintained	special_academy_free	special_independent	special_non_maintained	special_total	special_total_pc	ap_pru_academy	ap_pru_free_school	ap_pru_la_maintained	ap_pru_total	AP_PRU_total_pc	general_fe_tertiary_colleges	specialist_post_16_institutions	ukrlp_provider	fe_total	fe_total_pc	elective_home_education	other_arrangements_la	other_arrangements_parents	online_provider	w_settings	other_schools	other_placement_settings	neet	neet_ntci	neet_other	neet_other_csa	ed_elsewhere	ed_elsewhere_pc	nm_early_years	nm_early_years_pc	placement_unknown	placement_unknown_pc	await_prov_2022	perm_ex_2022
2019	Calendar year	National	E92000001	England						New EHC plans	New EHC plans	53899	20087	644	493	13546	472	375	527	5	1	605	36755	68.2	5594	2705	1602	158	10059	18.7	303	90	625	1018	1.9	1579	140	x	1719	3.2	x	445	145	x	x	x	111	x	x	x	x	1187	2.2	1877	3.5	x	x	1134	39
2019	Calendar year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				New EHC plans	New EHC plans	2633	958	54	7	519	55	26	19	0	0	4	1642	62.4	377	192	56	13	638	24.2	5	1	27	33	1.3	63	6	x	69	2.6	x	3	6	x	x	x	16	x	x	x	x	29	1.1	116	4.4	x	x	88	2
2019	Calendar year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				New EHC plans	New EHC plans	7769	3303	105	59	1140	46	30	50	0	0	48	4781	61.5	1270	411	279	45	2005	25.8	34	10	140	184	2.4	243	17	x	260	3.3	x	32	15	x	x	x	12	x	x	x	x	97	1.2	284	3.7	x	x	144	2
2019	Calendar year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber				New EHC plans	New EHC plans	4671	1617	53	7	1617	39	1	19	0	0	21	3374	72.2	285	172	103	19	579	12.4	46	18	102	166	3.6	155	34	x	189	4	x	11	15	x	x	x	23	x	x	x	x	74	1.6	193	4.1	x	x	70	3
2019	Calendar year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				New EHC plans	New EHC plans	3706	1105	16	30	1213	19	35	14	0	0	18	2450	66.1	335	288	88	10	721	19.5	13	16	17	46	1.2	102	9	x	111	3	x	51	22	x	x	x	9	x	x	x	x	115	3.1	113	3	x	x	141	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 49 variables

Variable name	Variable description
ap_pru_academy	Alternative provision academies
ap_pru_free_school	Alternative provision free schools
ap_pru_la_maintained	Pupil referral units
ap_pru_total	Total alternative provision
AP_PRU_total_pc	Total percentage alternative provision
await_prov_2022	Awaiting provision (pre 2023 only)
breakdown	Characteristics of child or young person with new EHC plan - Filter by characteristics of child or young person with a new EHC plan
ed_elsewhere	Total educated elsewhere
ed_elsewhere_pc	Total percentage educated elsewhere
elective_home_education	Elective home education
fe_total	Total further education and post 16
fe_total_pc	Total percentage further education and post 16
general_fe_tertiary_colleges	FE colleges and sixth forms
mainstream_academy	Mainstream academies
mainstream_academy_resourced_provision	Mainstream academies - resourced provision
mainstream_academy_senunit	Mainstream academies - SEN units
mainstream_free_school	Mainstream free schools
mainstream_free_school_resourced_provision	Mainstream free schools - resourced provision
mainstream_free_school_senunit	Mainstream free schools - SEN units
mainstream_independent	Mainstream independent schools
mainstream_la_maintained	Mainstream LA maintained schools
mainstream_la_maintained_resourced_provision	Mainstream LA maintained schools - resourced provision
mainstream_la_maintained_senunit	Mainstream LA maintained schools - SEN units
mainstream_total	Total mainstream schools
mainstream_total_pc	Total percentage mainstream schools
neet	Not in employment, education or training
neet_ntci	Not in education or training – notice to cease issued
neet_other	Not in education or training – other age groups
neet_other_csa	Not in education or training – compulsory school age
new_ehc_plans	Total number of new EHC plans
nm_early_years	Non maintained early years
nm_early_years_pc	Non maintained early years percentage
online_provider	Online providers
other_arrangements_la	Other arrangements made by LA
other_arrangements_parents	Other arrangements made by parents
other_placement_settings	Other types of placement
other_schools	Other school types
perm_ex_2022	Permanently excluded (pre 2023 only)
placement_unknown	Placement not recorded
placement_unknown_pc	Placement not recorded percentage
special_academy_free	Special academies and free schools
special_independent	Independent special schools
special_la_maintained	LA maintained special schools
special_non_maintained	Non maintained special schools
special_total	Total special schools
special_total_pc	Total percentage special schools
specialist_post_16_institutions	Specialist post 16 establishments
ukrlp_provider	UKRLP providers
w_settings	Welsh schools and establishments

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Footnotes

1. Cambridgeshire and North East Lincolnshire were not able to return placements for significant numbers of plans for 2025. Brighton and Hove, and Wolverhampton, made significant numbers of errors in the placement attended. For these local authorities the breakdown by placement attended has therefore been supressed. 
2. Includes service children's education, offshore schools, secure units, British schools overseas and establishments listed as "Miscellaneous" on Get Information About Schools (opens in new tab).
3. Incudes those awaiting provision, those where a type of setting is specified in the EHC plan (e.g. special school) but no specific setting is named, those out of provision, and all other settings not otherwise listed.
4. Age is calculated based on the start date recorded for the EHC plan.
5. Wakefield submitted aggregate information for new plans for 2022. The totals will therefore not match the sum of characteristics and placements information.

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