21 October 2022
Your requests
1. I would like to know how many SEND officers are within the team per pay banding.
2. For each of these officers, I would like to know their caseloads for each quarter since January 2018.
3. I would like to also know how much has been spent on agency staff within the service since 2018, by each year. Please can this include the number of agency staff this is for.
4. I would like to know how much has been spent on consultants for the service since 2018, by each year. Please can this include the name of consultants and hours spent if possible.
5. Please can I request the number of overall consultations (right to consult during an EHCP process) with schools that were rejected since 2018. Please can this be broken down by school type and by each year.
Our response
1.
- Lead, special education needs and disabilities PO9
- Send operations manager PO6
- Principle EHCP coordinator PO3
- Principla EHCP coordinator 0-14 PO3
- Annual review and transitions monitoring officer PO1
- QA and data manager PO3
- Education health care coordinatior 0-14 PO2
- Education health care coordinatior 0-14 PO2
- Education health care coordinatior 0-14 PO2
- Education health care coordinatior 0-14 PO2
- Education health care coordinatior PFA PO2
- Education health care coordinatior PFA PO2
- Education health care coordinatior PFA PO2
- Education health and care plan assistant Sc5
- Education and care plan assistant Sc5
- Sen funding systems support officer SO2
- EHCP Annual Review and Transitions Support and Disabilities Register coordinator so1 SO1
- AR and transitions support Sc5
- Data officer SO2
2. Caseloads are variable and not all officers have a set caseload. The service is set up so officers share the same cases but work on different aspects. So we can’t give an accurate figure.
3.
- 2018-2019 170,019.42 11 staff throughout the year
- 2019-2020 186,734.15 7 staff throughout the year
- 2020-2021 152330.8 8 staff throughout the year
- 2021-2022 317,812.00 19 staff throughout the year (some staff stayed for a short period).
4. various works completed by consultants and firms not available with breakdown and hours
5. this information is not recorded