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A sourced profile for every English council 148 upper tier councils, each with up to fourteen indicators fused from seven official datasets: EHC plans and their timeliness, special needs transport, looked after children, school absence, temporary accommodation, child poverty, and exceptional financial support. Click any council for its full sourced profile.
Sorted by an indicative high needs pressure score · figures 2025 to 2026
Council Region Pressure EHC plans Child poverty Bailout Tameside North West 91 3,837 32% - Derbyshire East Midlands 86 9,022 - - Cumberland North West 86 3,088 23% £23m Cheshire West and Chester North West 84 4,395 20% - Nottingham East Midlands 84 2,311 40% £25m Sandwell West Midlands 81 4,780 40% - Wirral North West 78 6,480 25% £8m Shropshire West Midlands 77 3,360 23% - Suffolk East of England 77 11,598 - - Wigan North West 77 4,062 25% - West Northamptonshire East Midlands 75 5,337 23% - Newcastle upon Tyne North East 75 3,496 31% - Cheshire East North West 75 5,440 17% £25m Sefton North West 72 4,197 25% - Liverpool North West 72 7,875 34% - Nottinghamshire East Midlands 71 6,265 - - Bristol South West 71 5,770 26% - Kingston upon Hull Yorkshire and The Humber 71 3,919 37% - Lancashire North West 69 14,728 - - Medway South East 68 4,287 27% £28m Worcestershire West Midlands 68 8,276 - £34m Rochdale North West 66 3,807 37% - Stockton-on-Tees North East 66 2,800 26% - Plymouth South West 66 3,646 27% £72m Staffordshire West Midlands 66 9,979 - - Gloucestershire South West 65 7,521 - - Knowsley North West 65 3,172 30% - North Tyneside North East 64 2,590 23% - Warwickshire West Midlands 64 8,227 - - Bradford Yorkshire and The Humber 63 8,489 42% £127m North East Lincolnshire Yorkshire and The Humber 63 2,261 36% - Isle of Wight South East 63 - 31% - Hampshire South East 63 20,499 - - North Northamptonshire East Midlands 63 5,372 25% - Salford North West 63 3,727 34% - West Sussex South East 62 10,945 - - Dudley West Midlands 62 4,151 32% - Brighton and Hove South East 62 3,193 22% - Stoke-on-Trent West Midlands 61 3,707 38% £17m Portsmouth South East 61 2,616 31% - St. Helens North West 61 2,644 26% - County Durham North East 60 5,776 29% - Halton North West 60 1,825 28% £32m Somerset South West 60 6,350 - £45m Herefordshire West Midlands 60 2,048 26% - Wokingham South East 59 2,435 11% - Cornwall South West 59 5,575 28% - West Berkshire South East 59 1,884 17% £20m Manchester North West 59 9,874 42% - Walsall West Midlands 59 4,779 38% - Sunderland North East 59 3,191 30% - Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole South West 58 4,982 24% - Wakefield Yorkshire and The Humber 58 4,167 27% - Hartlepool North East 58 1,067 32% - Devon South West 58 10,340 - - Gateshead North East 57 2,046 28% - Central Bedfordshire East of England 57 4,357 18% - Stockport North West 56 3,930 20% - Bath and North East Somerset South West 56 2,687 16% - Oxfordshire South East 56 8,559 - - Norfolk East of England 56 13,777 - - Buckinghamshire South East 56 7,629 - - Essex East of England 55 15,776 - - Solihull West Midlands 55 2,806 20% £33m Sheffield Yorkshire and The Humber 55 7,019 32% - Luton East of England 54 3,037 40% - Reading South East 54 2,077 25% - Redcar and Cleveland North East 54 1,565 31% - Northumberland North East 54 4,163 24% - Barking and Dagenham London 53 3,297 39% - Hertfordshire East of England 53 15,137 - - East Sussex South East 53 5,243 - - Peterborough East of England 53 3,191 35% - Westmorland and Furness North West 52 2,687 20% - Rotherham Yorkshire and The Humber 52 4,062 31% - Doncaster Yorkshire and The Humber 52 3,336 35% - Leicestershire East Midlands 52 8,812 - - Blackburn with Darwen North West 52 1,739 39% - Greenwich London 51 3,626 29% - North Yorkshire Yorkshire and The Humber 51 6,444 - - South Tyneside North East 50 1,861 30% - Coventry West Midlands 50 3,914 32% - Lewisham London 50 3,698 30% - Derby East Midlands 49 3,734 33% - Southend-on-Sea East of England 49 2,432 29% - Southampton South East 49 2,945 31% £90m Thurrock East of England 49 2,934 27% £62m North Lincolnshire Yorkshire and The Humber 48 1,941 30% - Croydon London 47 5,926 30% £110m North Somerset South West 46 3,007 19% - Torbay South West 46 1,793 32% - York Yorkshire and The Humber 46 1,777 18% - Wolverhampton West Midlands 45 3,324 38% - Milton Keynes South East 45 3,202 24% - Calderdale Yorkshire and The Humber 44 2,934 31% - Havering London 44 3,419 24% £88m Slough South East 44 2,585 31% £16m Middlesbrough North East 43 2,133 39% - Darlington North East 43 1,227 29% - Wiltshire South West 43 6,914 19% - Warrington North West 43 2,494 19% - Lincolnshire East Midlands 42 9,381 - - Bracknell Forest South East 41 1,718 15% - Cambridgeshire East of England 41 8,619 - - Trafford North West 41 3,405 16% £10m Hackney London 40 3,721 50% - Waltham Forest London 40 3,946 32% - Bromley London 39 4,790 15% - Surrey South East 39 17,765 - - Oldham North West 37 3,959 42% - Leicester East Midlands 37 4,175 40% - Kirklees Yorkshire and The Humber 37 5,092 33% - Bedford East of England 37 2,319 25% - South Gloucestershire South West 37 3,669 18% - Birmingham West Midlands 37 13,221 44% £180m Islington London 36 2,334 33% - Kent South East 36 21,742 - - Southwark London 35 3,619 31% - Swindon South West 34 2,789 23% £15m Sutton London 33 2,708 20% - Rutland East Midlands 33 431 15% - Lambeth London 33 3,350 31% £40m City of London London 32 26 15% - Bolton North West 32 3,909 37% - Redbridge London 32 3,830 31% - Bury North West 32 3,099 30% - Hammersmith and Fulham London 31 1,843 24% - Bexley London 31 3,540 20% - Barnsley Yorkshire and The Humber 30 3,380 31% - Ealing London 30 4,546 34% - Camden London 30 1,645 27% - East Riding of Yorkshire Yorkshire and The Humber 28 3,917 22% - Tower Hamlets London 27 4,834 50% - Brent London 26 4,171 42% - Enfield London 25 5,055 40% £10m Merton London 23 2,917 22% - Westminster London 22 1,527 26% - Hounslow London 22 3,499 32% - Harrow London 20 3,019 29% - Barnet London 18 4,840 27% £56m Haringey London 17 3,048 38% £37m Hillingdon London 17 3,735 28% - Windsor and Maidenhead South East 16 1,363 13% £41m Wandsworth London 16 3,359 24% - Kensington and Chelsea London 15 880 16% - Richmond upon Thames London 14 2,166 11% - Kingston upon Thames London 13 2,159 18% - Isles of Scilly South West 2 15 11% -
The pressure score is an indicative British Resilience Index measure, not an official statistic. Temporary accommodation and child poverty are not published at county level. See the council pressure analysis for what the pattern across all councils reveals, and data sources for provenance.