Education and Inclusion Service
UNCLASSIFIED People Directorate Civic Centre 1 Earl Street Coventry CV1 5RS
Telephone 024 7683 3621
Please contact: Our reference: REQ00073 Becky Twite Telephone: 024 76832811 Date: 20 July 2015 E-mail: [email protected]
Dear
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)
Thank you for requesting information about Education Health Care Plans/Statements of Special Educational Needs, which the Council received on 04 June 2015. Your request has been considered under the above legislation.
You have requested the following information:
The number of children in Coventry who are on an EHCP/Statement of Special Educational Needs
1,330 (as at January 2015)
The number of children who are undergoing assessment for an EHCP
113
The number of children on an EHCP/Statement of special Educational Needs who are in mainstream schools within Coventry
515
The average number of children on an EHCP/Statement of special Educational Needs in each mainstream school within Coventry
The breakdown you have requested above is being withheld as it falls under the exemption in Section 40 (2) and the related first condition of Section 40 (3) of the FOIA, which relates to personal information.
This is because the Council considers that the requested information, while not naming individual children, still meets the definition for personal data set out in Section 1(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998 as the average number of children at the schools would be sufficiently low enough to increase the risk of the children being identifiable.
The individuals involved would not have a reasonable expectation that this information would be disclosed to the world at large. The Council has considered it is not likely that releasing the requested information would be meaningful/useful or beneficial to the public, which is the prime consideration when considering the public interest.
The names of schools with lower than the average number of children on an EHCP/Statement of Special Educational Needs
Primary
All Saints' Parkgate Whitley Abbey All Souls' Pearl Hyde Whoberley Hall Allesley Potters Green Broad Heath Community Radford Primary Academy Charter Ravensdale Clifford Bridge Seva Coundon Sir Frank Whittle Eastern Green Junior Sowe Valley Finham SS Peter & Paul Good Shepherd St Andrew's CE Infant Gosford Park St Anne's Grange Farm St Augustine's Hearsall Community St Bartholomew's (Academy) Henley Green St Gregory's Hill Farm (Academy) St John Fisher Holbrook St John Vianney Hollyfast St John's (Academy) Holy Family St Laurence's (Academy) John Gulson St Osburg's John Shelton St Patrick's Keresley Grange St Thomas More Leigh Stanton Bridge Limbrick Wood Stoke Heath Longford Park Stretton Academy Mount Nod Templars Park Hill Walsgrave
2 Secondary
Bishop Ullathorne Sidney Stringer Academy Cardinal Newman Stoke Park Cardinal Wiseman Tile Hill Wood (Academy) Eden Girl's School Whitley Academy Finham Park (Academy) WMG Academy Foxford Woodlands Academy Grace Academy
The names of schools with higher than average number of children on an EHCP/Statement of Special Educational Needs
Primary
Alderman's Green Moathouse Community Aldermoor Farm Moseley Allesley Hall Our Lady of the Assumption Cannon Park Richard Lee Christ the King Sacred Heart Corpus Christi Southfields Courthouse Green Spon Gate Earlsdon St Christopher Edgewick Community St Elizabeth's Ernesford Grange St Mary and St. Benedict Frederick Bird Stivichall Grangehurst Stoke Howes Whitmore Park Joseph Cash Willenhall Community Little Heath Wyken Croft Manor Park
Secondary
Barr's Hill Ernesford Grange Community Academy Blue Coat (Academy) Lyng Hall Caludon Castle (Academy) President Kennedy (Academy) Coundon Court (Academy) The Westwood Academy
3 Special
Baginton Fields RNIB Three Spires Academy Castlewood Sherbourne Fields Corley Tiverton River Bank Academy Woodfield
The number of children on an EHCP/Statement of Special Educational Needs who have been moved from Finham Primary into specialist schools since September 2012
0
The number of children an EHCP/Statement of Special Educational Needs who have left Finham Primary since September 2012 into other mainstream schools
The information you have requested above is being withheld as it falls under the exemption in Section 40 (2) and the related first condition of Section 40 (3) of the FOIA, which relates to personal information. Please see response to question 4 above.
The number of children being assessed for EHCP/Statement of Special Educational Needs who have left Finham Primary since September 2012
0
The number of children with an EHCP/Statement of Special Educational Needs who have been moved from Finham Primary to Woodfields since September 2012
0
The total number of mainstream schools within Coventry
85 Primary 19 Secondary
The SEN budget allocated to Finham Primary each year since September 2012
Budgets are provided to schools on a financial year basis (April to March) not on an academic year basis (September to August) so we cannot provide the SEN budget allocated for each year since September 2012 but can provide the SEN budgets for the previous three financial years (please see below).
4 Please note that by ‘SEN budgets’ we are referring to the school’s notional high needs budget and any high needs top-up funding allocated. It should also be noted that below figures demonstrate the allocation of High Needs funding, however, it is for the school to determine how best to spend its funding and we cannot guarantee that the school spend all/only this funding on High Needs pupils.
2012-2013 £80,243 2013-2014 £70,482 2014-2015 £79,209
The breakdown of spending of the SEN budget of Finham Primary each year since September 2012
It has been established that the Council does not hold the above information and are informing you as required by Section 1(1) of the Act.
To advise and assist you further Schools are classed as separate public authorities under the Act and you may wish to contact Finham Primary direct to request information that they may hold. Their contact details can be found via the link below:
http://www.coventry.gov.uk/directory/10/schools_and_their_contact_details
The number of children on an EHCP/Statement of Special Educational Needs who have been moved from Finham Primary into specialist schools between September 2009 and May 2012
0
The number of children an EHCP/Statement of Special Educational Needs who have left Finham Primary between September 2009 and May 2012 into other mainstream schools
The information you have requested above is being withheld as it falls under the exemption in Section 40 (2) and the related first condition of Section 40 (3) of the FOIA, which relates to personal information. Please see response to question 4 above.
The number of children being assessed for EHCP/Statement of Special Educational Needs who have left Finham Primary between September 2009 and May 2012
0
5 The number of children with an EHCP/Statement of Special Educational Needs who have been moved from Finham Primary to Woodfield between September 2009 and May 2012
0
Please note, under the Re-Use of Public Sector Information 2005 Regulations you are free to use this information for your own use or for the purposes of news reporting.
However, any other type of re-use under the Regulations, for example; publication of the information or circulation to the public, will require permission of the copyright owner and may be subject to terms and conditions. For documents where the copyright does not belong to Coventry City Council you will need to apply separately to the copyright holder.
If you wish to apply to reuse the information you have requested or have any other issues relating to this request please do not hesitate to contact me.
If you are unhappy with the outcome or handling of your request you should write to us within 40 working days of the date of this letter, to the Council's Information Governance Team at:
Council House, Room 21a Lower Ground Floor Earl Street, Coventry. CV1 5RR [email protected]
If you have done this and are still dissatisfied, the Information Commissioner can be contacted at:
Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF
Yours sincerely
Project Support & Operational Finance Officer
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