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EHC plan timeliness
Part of the Childhood and Social Floor domain. Share of new Education, Health and Care plans issued within the statutory 20 weeks (excluding exception cases), England.
Latest data
Latest reading
2025
A lower reading is treated as worse for this indicator.
Score composition
Stress score
Blended from three components: (60% weight), trend (30% weight) and volatility (10% weight). Full formula on the methodology page.
Level · 60% weight
Percentile: this metric is scored against its own history, where today sits between its best and worst recorded years.
Trend · 30% weight
Measured from the direction and size of the change between the two most recent readings.
Volatility · 10% weight
62Measured from how much this indicator has swung period on period across its recorded history.
Data confidence and provenance
Confidence and source
How much weight to put on the reading, the mean data-confidence across the component metrics (source quality, recency and completeness).
Source
Education, health and care plans
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Reliability
- high
Provenance
- Provider
- Department for Education
- Series ID
- dfe_ehcp
- Frequency
- Annual
- Accessed
- 7 July 2026
Known weakness
England; excludes statutory exception cases, and a 2022 reporting-scope change coincides with the sharp fall in performance.
Notes
Verified official value from Department for Education (dfe_ehcp), accessed 2026-07-07.
Historical values
History
| Period | Value | Relative |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59.2 | |
| 2016 | 58.6 | |
| 2017 | 64.9 | |
| 2018 | 60.1 | |
| 2019 | 60.4 | |
| 2020 | 58 | |
| 2021 | 59.9 | |
| 2022 | 49.2 | |
| 2023 | 50.3 | |
| 2024 | 46.4 | |
| 2025 | 46.1 |