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A sourced profile for every English council 153 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 85 3,088 23% £23m Nottingham East Midlands 84 2,311 40% £25m Cheshire West and Chester North West 84 4,395 20% - Sandwell West Midlands 80 4,780 40% - Wirral North West 78 6,480 25% £8m Shropshire West Midlands 78 3,360 23% - Suffolk East of England 78 11,598 - - Wigan North West 77 4,062 25% - Newcastle upon Tyne North East 75 3,496 31% - West Northamptonshire East Midlands 75 5,337 23% - Cheshire East North West 74 5,440 17% £25m Sefton North West 72 4,197 25% - Liverpool North West 71 7,875 34% - Bristol South West 71 5,770 26% - Kingston upon Hull Yorkshire and The Humber 71 3,919 37% - Nottinghamshire East Midlands 71 6,265 - - Leeds Yorkshire and The Humber 69 7,474 30% - Medway South East 69 4,287 27% £28m Lancashire North West 69 14,728 - - Worcestershire West Midlands 67 8,276 - £34m Rochdale North West 66 3,807 37% - Stockton-on-Tees North East 66 2,800 26% - Staffordshire West Midlands 66 9,979 - - Gloucestershire South West 66 7,521 - - Knowsley North West 65 3,172 30% - Plymouth South West 65 3,646 27% £72m North Tyneside North East 64 2,590 23% - Warwickshire West Midlands 64 8,227 - - Newham London 63 3,639 45% £51m Salford North West 63 3,727 34% - Bradford Yorkshire and The Humber 63 8,489 42% £127m Isle of Wight South East 63 - 31% - North Northamptonshire East Midlands 63 5,372 25% - Dudley West Midlands 62 4,151 32% - North East Lincolnshire Yorkshire and The Humber 62 2,261 36% - Brighton and Hove South East 62 3,193 22% - Hampshire South East 62 20,499 - - Blackpool North West 62 1,904 39% - West Sussex South East 62 10,945 - - St. Helens North West 61 2,644 26% - Stoke-on-Trent West Midlands 61 3,707 38% £17m County Durham North East 60 5,776 29% - Portsmouth South East 60 2,616 31% - Halton North West 60 1,825 28% £32m Herefordshire West Midlands 60 2,048 26% - Sunderland North East 59 3,191 30% - West Berkshire South East 59 1,884 17% £20m Wokingham South East 59 2,435 11% - Cornwall South West 59 5,575 28% - Somerset South West 59 6,350 - £45m Walsall West Midlands 58 4,779 38% - Manchester North West 58 9,874 42% - Wakefield Yorkshire and The Humber 58 4,167 27% - Hartlepool North East 58 1,067 32% - Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole South West 58 4,982 24% - Gateshead North East 57 2,046 28% - Central Bedfordshire East of England 57 4,357 18% - Devon South West 57 10,340 - - Stockport North West 56 3,930 20% - Bath and North East Somerset South West 56 2,687 16% - Buckinghamshire South East 56 7,629 - - Norfolk East of England 56 13,777 - - Oxfordshire South East 56 8,559 - - Solihull West Midlands 55 2,806 20% £33m Essex East of England 55 15,776 - - Sheffield Yorkshire and The Humber 54 7,019 32% - Luton East of England 54 3,037 40% - Northumberland North East 54 4,163 24% - Barking and Dagenham London 53 3,297 39% - Redcar and Cleveland North East 53 1,565 31% - East Sussex South East 53 5,243 - - Reading South East 53 2,077 25% - Hertfordshire East of England 53 15,137 - - Rotherham Yorkshire and The Humber 52 4,062 31% - Leicestershire East Midlands 52 8,812 - - Peterborough East of England 52 3,191 35% - Blackburn with Darwen North West 52 1,739 39% - Westmorland and Furness North West 52 2,687 20% - Doncaster Yorkshire and The Humber 51 3,336 35% - North Yorkshire Yorkshire and The Humber 51 6,444 - - Greenwich London 50 3,626 29% - Lewisham London 50 3,698 30% - Coventry West Midlands 50 3,914 32% - South Tyneside North East 50 1,861 30% - Southampton South East 50 2,945 31% £90m Derby East Midlands 49 3,734 33% - Southend-on-Sea East of England 49 2,432 29% - 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% - York Yorkshire and The Humber 46 1,777 18% - Torbay South West 46 1,793 32% - Wolverhampton West Midlands 45 3,324 38% - Milton Keynes South East 45 3,202 24% - Calderdale Yorkshire and The Humber 44 2,934 31% - Slough South East 44 2,585 31% £16m Havering London 43 3,419 24% £88m 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% - Bracknell Forest South East 42 1,718 15% - Lincolnshire East Midlands 42 9,381 - - Cambridgeshire East of England 41 8,619 - - Waltham Forest London 40 3,946 32% - Trafford North West 40 3,405 16% £10m Dorset South West 40 4,719 23% - Hackney London 39 3,721 50% - Bromley London 39 4,790 15% - Telford and Wrekin West Midlands 39 2,669 33% - Surrey South East 39 17,765 - - South Gloucestershire South West 38 3,669 18% - Leicester East Midlands 38 4,175 40% - Oldham North West 37 3,959 42% - Kirklees Yorkshire and The Humber 37 5,092 33% - Bedford East of England 37 2,319 25% - Islington London 36 2,334 33% - Birmingham West Midlands 36 13,221 44% £180m Kent South East 36 21,742 - - Southwark London 35 3,619 31% - Swindon South West 34 2,789 23% £15m Redbridge London 33 3,830 31% - Rutland East Midlands 33 431 15% - City of London London 32 26 15% - Lambeth London 32 3,350 31% £40m Sutton London 32 2,708 20% - Bury North West 32 3,099 30% - Hammersmith and Fulham London 31 1,843 24% - Bolton North West 31 3,909 37% - Bexley London 30 3,540 20% - Ealing London 30 4,546 34% - Barnsley Yorkshire and The Humber 30 3,380 31% - Camden London 29 1,645 27% - East Riding of Yorkshire Yorkshire and The Humber 28 3,917 22% - Tower Hamlets London 27 4,834 50% - Brent London 25 4,171 42% - Enfield London 24 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% - Wandsworth London 16 3,359 24% - Kensington and Chelsea London 15 880 16% - Windsor and Maidenhead South East 15 1,363 13% £41m Kingston upon Thames London 13 2,159 18% - Richmond upon Thames London 13 2,166 11% - 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, and a small number of councils do not appear in the special needs transport return, so those cells are blank. See the council pressure analysis for what the pattern across all councils reveals, and data sources for provenance.