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high needs pressure

A sourced snapshot of the demand led pressures on City of London, drawn from official datasets.

Upper tier authority · figures 2025 to 2026

Special educational needs

26

Children with an EHC plan

DfE EHC plans ↗
+30%

EHC caseload growth, five years

DfE EHC plans ↗
100%

New plans issued within 20 weeks

DfE EHC plans ↗
£0.1m

Special needs school transport, forecast spend

DfE home to school transport ↗
75%

Special needs pupils carried by taxi

DfE home to school transport ↗

Children and schools

6%

Pupils persistently absent

DfE pupil absence ↗

Housing and money

33

Households in temporary accommodation

MHCLG statutory homelessness ↗
20

Children in temporary accommodation

MHCLG statutory homelessness ↗
15%

Children in low income families

DWP children in low income families ↗

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Other councils in London

The same indicators, for City of London’s neighbours, ordered by the indicative high needs pressure measure.

How to read this

A sourced snapshot, not a ranking

Every figure on this page is drawn directly from an official dataset, linked beside it. The high needs pressure score is an indicative British Resilience Index measure that combines the council’s EHC caseload growth, the taxi share of its special needs transport, how few EHC plans it issues on time, and its looked after children rate into a single 0 to 100 percentile; it is an analytical construct, not an official statistic. Temporary accommodation and child poverty are not published at county level, so those cells are blank for county councils, and a small number of councils do not appear in the special needs transport return, so their transport cells are blank too. See the council pressure analysis for what the pattern across all councils shows.