Request:
I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please provide data for each of the calendar years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 on:
- The number of school pupils in your local authority area who had an Education Other Than at School (EOTAS) OR Education Other Than In School (EOTIS) plan during each of those years.
- The combined total value of the personal budgets (or equivalent funding allocations) attached to those EOTAS/EOTIS plans for each of those years.
If your records are organised by academic year, please indicate this and provide the most recent five years of data on that basis instead.
Response:
| EOTAS students | personal budgets | |
| 2021 | X | £3,055 |
| 2022 | X | £3,535 |
| 2023 | 10 | £16,058 |
| 2024 | 35 | £49,077 |
| 2025 | 79 | £110,458 |
* Numbers less than or equal to 5 supressed (X).
This information is withheld under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Code of Practice for Official Statistics requires that reasonable steps should be taken to ensure that all published or disseminated statistics protect confidentiality.
To do this numbers less than or equal to 5 are suppressed to protect confidentiality. Disclosure of such information would therefore be in breach of the data protection principles and is therefore withheld under section 40 (2) of the FOIA.