council profile · South East

Isle of Wight

63/100

high needs pressure

A sourced snapshot of the demand led pressures on Isle of Wight, drawn from official datasets.

Upper tier authority · figures 2025 to 2026

Special educational needs

£2.9m

Special needs school transport, forecast spend

DfE home to school transport ↗
43%

Special needs pupils carried by taxi

DfE home to school transport ↗

Children and schools

110

Looked after children per 10,000

DfE children looked after ↗
22.2%

Pupils persistently absent

DfE pupil absence ↗

Housing and money

235

Households in temporary accommodation

MHCLG statutory homelessness ↗
358

Children in temporary accommodation

MHCLG statutory homelessness ↗
31%

Children in low income families

DWP children in low income families ↗

local figures in context

The analysis behind these figures

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Other councils in South East

The same indicators, for Isle of Wight’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.