Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care what proportion of public funding for young people aged 16 to 25 with an Education, Health and Care Plan has been met through (a) health budgets and (b) social care budgets as opposed to education funding in each of the last five years.

The information requested is not held centrally. As set out in the Children and Families Act 2014 and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Code of Practice, local authorities and clinical commissioning groups must make joint commissioning arrangements for education, health and care provision for young people with SEND with Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans. The joint arrangements underpinning the EHC plan will include agreement between the partners of their respective responsibilities for funding the arrangements, to ensure that the services specified are commissioned. Young people and parents of children who have EHC plans also have the right to request a Personal Budget, which may contain elements of education, social care and health funding.