Asked by: Matt Hancock (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in state schools have (a) an EHC plan and (b) SEN but no EHC plan.
Answered by Will Quince
In January 2021, there were 325,600 pupils in state schools with an education, health and care (EHC) plan. There were a further 1,083,100 pupils with special educational needs (SEN) but no EHC plan (also referred to as SEN support). The data is published in the ‘Special Educational Needs in England’ National Statistics publication available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england.
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils in state schools have a specific learning difficulty.
Answered by Will Quince
In January 2021, the number of children attending state schools where their primary special educational need was recorded as a specific learning difficulty is 156,797, and those where it was recorded as a secondary need is 27,237.
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils in private schools have a specific learning difficulty.
Answered by Will Quince
The department does not hold data on the type of special educational need (SEN), including specific learning difficulties, of pupils attending independent schools.
The number of pupils with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan attending independent schools, as of January 2021, was 21,887. The number of pupils with SEN, but with no EHC plan, attending independent schools was 80,386.
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have signed up to the Nuffield Early Language Intervention programme; and what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of that programme.
Answered by Will Quince
Since the programme was introduced as part of the department’s education recovery response during the COVID-19 outbreak,11,100 schools (over two thirds of all primaries) have signed up to the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme over the academic years 2020/21 and 2021/22. The majority of these schools have free school meal rates above the national average. The full list of schools taking part will be published shortly.
The NELI programme has been extensively trialled, with three randomised control trials demonstrating its effectiveness in raising language and literacy outcomes for reception age children.
The Education Endowment Foundation plans to provide an independent evaluation of the second year of the scale up of the NELI. The research project plans to gather and share useful lessons about the programme itself, as well as broader lessons about offering educational programmes at scale to English schools.
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total number of pupils is in (a) state and (b) private schools; and what the total number of positive assessments for dyslexia is in (a) state and (b) private schools.
Answered by Will Quince
The total number of children in state schools is 8,342,521, as of January 2021. The total number of children in independent schools is 569,332, as of January 2021.
The department does not hold the information requested about the number of children with dyslexia in state schools or independent schools. However, state schools report the number of pupils who have a specific learning difficulty, which usually includes dyslexia, as their primary need as being 156,797, and those for whom it is a secondary need as 27,237 pupils.