Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have received an Education, Health and Care plan from their local authority in the last 12 months.
The requested information is available in the National Statistics publication on Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans, accessible at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans. The latest available data shows 66,400 new EHC plans were made across the 152 local authorities in England during the 2022 calendar year.