1. My request relates to Emotional Based School Avoidance (EBSA) and Education Health and Care plans (EHC plans). I am looking for data relating to the number of times Emotional Based School Avoidance or EBSA is mentioned in EHC plans held by your council over the past seven years. Specifically, please could you provide the following:
a) For each of the academic years 18/19, 19/20, 20/21, 21/22, 22/23, 23/24, and 24/25, the total number of EHC plans held by your authority.
b) In each of the academic years 18/19, 19/20, 20/21, 21/22, 22/23, 23/24, and 24/25 the number of EHC plans held by your council at some point in that year which mention Emotional Based School Avoidance or EBSA”.
If data is not available for the whole period requested, please instead provide it from the earliest academic year available up until the most recent available at the point of production.
This request is being refused as it would exceed the cost of compliance (Section 12). We have been advised by our Childrens Services that this would exceed 18 hours of work, they have advised there are 2350 EHCPs, each record would need to be manually checked and read taking approximately 30minutes each, totaling 1,175hours.