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I am making a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please provide the following information in relation to Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment requests:

1. The criteria, guidance, or decision-making framework used by the SEND Panel when deciding whether to carry out an EHC Needs Assessment.

2. Any written policies or threshold documents used when determining whether a child’s needs can be met from ordinarily available provision.

3. The membership structure of the SEND Panel (roles represented, not names) and how decisions are recorded.

4. For the past two academic years, please provide statistics showing:
o the number of requests for EHC Needs Assessments received
o the number agreed
o the number refused

5. For the same period, please provide the above statistics broken down (where recorded and in aggregated form) by:
o age or school phase/year group
o ethnicity categories used by the council
o sex
o school type (e.g., mainstream, specialist provision, or other placement)
o primary SEND need category (e.g., ASD, ADHD, SEMH, speech and language, learning difficulty, etc.)

If any of this information is already publicly available, please provide links.