- Request
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1. For each quarter of each financial year since Q1 of 2018, the average waiting time for an EHCP to be issued in your council area.
2. The average number of educational psychologists (EP) employed centrally by the council each financial year since April 2018.
3. The total spend of centrally employed EPs each year.
4. The average number of educational psychologists used by the council that are not centrally employed since April 2018. For example, locum or private EPs, but not exclusively. If you can state which route they were employed down, such as locum or private, I'd be grateful.
5. The total spend on EPs not employed by the council each year since April 2018.
- Decision
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1.
Period
Average Weeks for plans issued
2018/19
Q1
19.36046512
Q2
20.02072539
Q3
19.76699029
Q4
18.83448276
2019/20
Q1
20.10447761
Q2
21.11445783
Q3
27.91472868
Q4
35.51744186
2020/21
Q1
31.94360087
Q2
24.45454545
Q3
18.9950495
Q4
18.07692308
2021/22
Q1
19.09774436
Q2
20.01123596
Q3
19.68636364
Q4
19.14925373
2022/23
Q1
19.97222222
Q2
19.15981735
Q3
20.04347826
Q4
20.88343558
2023/24
Q1
19.78927203
Q2
20.03092784
Q3
20.66423358
Q4
20.88353414
2024/25
Q1
20.28045326
Q2
19
2. Lincolnshire County Council cannot provide this information.
3 and 5. (Q3 highlighted yellow; Q5 highlighted green)
Totals
18/19
19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
Total
Payroll
£1,181,560
£430,282
£111,481
£225,955
£161,886
£0
£2,111,164
Agency
£417,135
£915,452
£687,135
£511,429
£633,504
£1,353,622
£4,518,277
£6,629,441
4.
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
33 EP's
32 EP's
32 EP's
30 EP's
42 EP's
- Reference number
- 10043933
- Date request received
- 9 July 2024
- Date of decision
- 1 August 2024