Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of pupils with Education, Health and Care Plans attending (a) special schools and (b) mainstream schools in Essex in the most recent period for which figures are available.
The number of pupils with education, health and care plans attending special schools and mainstream schools in Essex is available in Table 14 of the local authority tables in the ‘Special Educational Needs in England: January 2018’ publication available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2018.