Special Educational Needs: Middlesbrough and Thornaby East
(asked on 24th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of Education, Health and Care Plan assessments for children in the Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency were completed within the statutory 20-week timescale in the last year; and how many decisions in those cases were subsequently overturned or amended following SEND tribunal proceedings.
Information on the number of education, heath and care (EHC) plans issued with 20 weeks during 2024, in both Middlesbrough and Stockton on Tees local authorities, is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/d93eb816-ebba-4148-eb03-08de29d3af56.
Information on the number of EHC needs assessments undertaken, their outcomes and the numbers which were subject to a tribunal during 2024 is shown in the table below:
Number of EHC needs assessments where the outcome was to issue an EHC plan | Number of EHC needs assessments where the outcome was not to issue an EHC plan | |
Middlesbrough | ||
Total number of EHC needs assessments | 314 | 0 |
Number of tribunals related to the assessment decision | 0 | 0 |
Number of tribunals related to the assessment for other reasons | 7 | 0 |
Stockton on Tees | ||
Total number of EHC needs assessments | 433 | 41 |
Number of tribunals related to the assessment decision | 9 | 4 |
Number of tribunals related to the assessment for other reasons | 10 | 0 |
An EHC needs assessment may be subject to a tribunal relating to the outcome of the assessment, or for other reasons relating to the content of any EHC plan that is subsequently issued.
Information at constituency level is not available.