CYP Now

26 May 2016

Fewer than one in five children with special educational needs (SEN) have been successfully transferred onto an education, health and care (EHC) plan as part of government efforts to transform the system, it has emerged.

Figures published by the Department for Education show that since local authorities became required in September 2014 to start transferring children on SEN statements to EHC plans, a total of 44,770 children have been successfully transferred.

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