Special Educational Needs Statements and EHCPs by UK Ward

Cambridgeshire Insight provides ward-level counts of children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs or an Educational Health and Care Plan. Totals are rounded to the nearest five for privacy. The dataset was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of EHCPs versus Statements across wards to track policy transition.
• Map the prevalence of special educational needs by ward for resource allocation studies.
• Compare ward-level totals of children with SEN support to identify areas of high need.
• Monitor changes in ward-level counts over time following dataset updates.

Strengths

• Data is aggregated at the ward level, enabling local analysis.
• Totals are rounded to the nearest five to protect individual privacy.
• Covers the new EHCP assessment process for ages 0-25.

Limitations

• Exact row and column counts are unknown.
• Data precision is limited as totals are rounded to the nearest five.
• Specific temporal coverage for the counts is not provided.

Provenance

Source

Cambridgeshire Insight

Collection Method

Administrative records aggregated by ward.

Freshness

Scheduled for future update; last updated April 2026.

Geography

Wards within the Cambridgeshire Insight reporting area.