EHCP's and Educational Psychologists
Case reference FOI2024/01192
Received 9 July 2024
Published 29 July 2024
Request
I would like to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:
1. For each quarter of each financial year since Q1 of 2018, the average waiting time for an EHCP to be issued in your council area.
2. The average number of educational psychologists employed centrally by the council each financial year since April 2018.
3. The total spend of centrally employed EPs each year.
4. The average number of educational psychologists used by the council that are not centrally employed since April 2018. For example, locum or private EPs, but not exclusively. If you can state which route they were employed down, such as locum or private, I'd be grateful.
5. The total spend on EPs not employed by the council each year since April 2018. Please can this information be contained in an excel spreadsheet.
Response
1. For each quarter of each financial year since Q1 of 2018, the average waiting time for an EHCP to be issued in your council area.
A:
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Average of No Weeks taken to issue FINAL plan |
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2018 |
April to June |
19.1 |
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Jul to Sept |
18.8 |
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Oct to Dec |
20.4 |
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|
2019 |
Jan to Mar |
19.1 |
|
April to June |
20.0 |
|
|
Jul to Sept |
19.0 |
|
|
Oct to Dec |
32.0 |
|
|
2020 |
Jan to Mar |
18.6 |
|
April to June |
19.0 |
|
|
Jul to Sept |
19.2 |
|
|
Oct to Dec |
22.2 |
|
|
2021 |
Jan to Mar |
21.2 |
|
April to June |
20.4 |
|
|
Jul to Sept |
19.1 |
|
|
Oct to Dec |
21.4 |
|
|
2022 |
Jan to Mar |
21.0 |
|
April to June |
21.1 |
|
|
Jul to Sept |
23.5 |
|
|
Oct to Dec |
21.8 |
|
|
2023 |
Jan to Mar |
20.4 |
|
April to June |
18.9 |
|
|
Jul to Sept |
20.9 |
|
|
Oct to Dec |
23.5 |
|
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2024 |
Jan to Mar |
22.8 |
|
April to June |
21.4 |
2. The average number of educational psychologists employed centrally by the council each financial year since April 2018.
A: Please note, the Service Area have advised that they can only run reports as a certain date so cannot provide the average across the year as request, however they have provided the data as at the 1st April and 31st March for each year:
|
Number of employees |
FTE |
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Year |
1st April |
31st March |
1st April |
31st March |
|
2018/19 |
6 |
8 |
3.9 |
6 |
|
2019/20 |
8 |
8 |
6 |
6.4 |
|
2020/21 |
8 |
8 |
6.4 |
6.9 |
|
2021/22 |
8 |
9 |
6.9 |
7.9 |
|
2022/23 |
9 |
11 |
7.9 |
8.2 |
|
2023/24 |
8 |
8 |
7.4 |
7.2 |
|
2024/25 |
8 |
N/A |
7.2 |
N/A |
3. The total spend of centrally employed EPs each year.
A:
|
April 2018 - March 2019 |
April 2019 - March 2020 |
April 2020 - March 2021 |
April 2021 - March 2022 |
April 2022 - March 2023 |
April 2023 - March 2024 |
|
|
Quarter 1 |
62,149 |
84,616 |
97,415 |
115,427 |
117,626 |
102,570 |
|
Quarter 2 |
68,676 |
83,396 |
102,102 |
124,428 |
120,873 |
122,684 |
|
Quarter 3 |
78,069 |
87,797 |
118,467 |
123,797 |
135,699 |
121,411 |
|
Quarter 4 |
84,266 |
92,102 |
109,918 |
121,732 |
160,086 |
161,742 |
|
|
293,160 |
347,911 |
427,902 |
485,383 |
534,285 |
508,406 |
4. The average number of educational psychologists used by the council that are not centrally employed since April 2018. For example, locum or private EPs, but not exclusively. If you can state which route they were employed down, such as locum or private, I'd be grateful.
A: The table below indicates the number of days of time of Private psychologists employed by the case, by the council and paid by the day:
|
Year |
18/19 |
19/20 |
20/21 |
21/22 |
22/23 |
23/24 |
|
EP days |
22 |
23 |
6 |
30 |
16 |
56 |
5. The total spend on EPs not employed by the council each year since April 2018.
Please can this information be contained in an excel spreadsheet.
A:
|
|
April 2018 - March 2019 |
April 2019 - March 2020 |
April 2020 - March 2021 |
April 2021 - March 2022 |
April 2022 - March 2023 |
April 2023 - March 2024 |
|
Quarter 1 |
5,542 |
1,200 |
11,200 |
4,000 |
7,000 |
|
|
Quarter 2 |
2,600 |
2,400 |
800 |
800 |
1,000 |
|
|
Quarter 3 |
400 |
1,600 |
16,200 |
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Quarter 4 |
4,000 |
2,400 |
1,800 |
4,000 |
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|
8,542 |
9,200 |
2,400 |
12,000 |
6,600 |
28,200 |
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