Special educational needs

Special educational needs plans issued on time

New education, health and care (EHC) plans issued within the legal limit of 20 weeks. 2025. Higher is better. Source: Department for Education: Education, health and care plans.

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Each council is the same size, so London is easy to see. Map layout by Open Innovations.

Every council, highest first

Position	Council	Figure
1	Barnet	100.0%
1	Bracknell Forest	100.0%
1	Wandsworth	100.0%
1	Windsor and Maidenhead	100.0%
5	Barnsley	98.6%
5	North East Lincolnshire	98.6%
7	York	98.5%
8	Bury	98.1%
9	Kensington and Chelsea	97.9%
10	Liverpool	97.3%
10	Telford and Wrekin	97.3%
12	Kingston upon Thames	97.2%
13	Richmond upon Thames	96.5%
14	Walsall	96.3%
15	North Somerset	96.0%
15	Sutton	96.0%
17	Merton	95.6%
18	Halton	94.7%
19	Bedford	94.3%
20	Calderdale	94.1%
21	Middlesbrough	93.3%
22	East Riding of Yorkshire	92.9%
22	Westminster	92.9%
24	South Tyneside	92.0%
25	Haringey	89.6%
26	Lambeth	89.1%
27	Harrow	88.2%
28	Hammersmith and Fulham	87.2%
29	Bradford	86.5%
30	Knowsley	86.4%
31	Bolton	86.0%
32	Islington	85.8%
33	Doncaster	83.9%
34	Gateshead	83.7%
35	Darlington	81.5%
36	Northumberland	81.4%
37	Rutland	80.7%
38	Wakefield	80.2%
39	Southampton	80.0%
40	Blackburn with Darwen	79.9%
41	Rotherham	79.4%
42	Dorset	78.2%
43	County Durham	77.6%
43	Hillingdon	77.6%
45	Oldham	76.9%
46	Manchester	74.2%
47	Solihull	74.0%
48	Warrington	73.6%
49	Camden	73.0%
50	Westmorland and Furness	72.0%
51	Bromley	71.3%
52	North Lincolnshire	70.4%
53	Brent	69.7%
54	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	69.0%
55	Enfield	67.2%
56	Peterborough	66.0%
57	Bexley	65.9%
58	Kirklees	62.8%
59	Reading	62.5%
60	Wiltshire	61.6%
61	Croydon	61.2%
62	St. Helens	59.6%
63	Sunderland	59.4%
64	Stoke-on-Trent	58.7%
65	Hounslow	58.4%
66	Brighton and Hove	57.4%
67	Herefordshire	57.0%
68	South Gloucestershire	56.6%
69	North Northamptonshire	56.5%
70	Central Bedfordshire	56.3%
71	Blackpool	55.0%
72	Salford	54.9%
73	Stockton-on-Tees	52.9%
74	Derby	52.6%
75	Ealing	52.2%
76	Rochdale	49.3%
77	Trafford	47.4%
78	Southend-on-Sea	47.0%
79	Tower Hamlets	46.0%
80	Wokingham	43.0%
81	Portsmouth	42.9%
81	Sefton	42.9%
83	Southwark	42.8%
84	Coventry	37.6%
85	Kingston upon Hull	37.4%
86	Birmingham	37.1%
87	Thurrock	35.4%
88	Cornwall	34.1%
89	Bath and North East Somerset	33.2%
90	Hackney	32.8%
91	Havering	32.0%
92	Newham	31.5%
93	Greenwich	31.2%
94	Slough	30.5%
95	Tameside	30.3%
96	Nottingham	30.2%
97	Sandwell	29.8%
98	Luton	29.1%
99	Redbridge	27.9%
100	Sheffield	27.8%
101	Barking and Dagenham	27.2%
102	Torbay	27.1%
103	North Tyneside	26.0%
104	Waltham Forest	25.7%
105	West Berkshire	25.2%
106	Dudley	25.1%
107	Cheshire East	23.9%
108	Lewisham	22.9%
109	Cheshire West and Chester	22.1%
110	Wigan	21.9%
111	Newcastle upon Tyne	21.8%
112	Hartlepool	21.4%
112	Medway	21.4%
114	Redcar and Cleveland	19.9%
115	Wolverhampton	19.6%
116	Stockport	18.1%
117	Isle of Wight	12.5%
118	Shropshire	11.9%
119	Swindon	11.8%
120	Milton Keynes	11.5%
121	Plymouth	10.2%
122	Wirral	8.2%
123	West Northamptonshire	7.9%
124	Leeds	7.3%
125	Bristol	6.8%
126	Cumberland	6.7%

No figure for: Buckinghamshire, Leicester, North Yorkshire, Somerset.