Educational psychologists employed by Lincolnshire County Council - Find a freedom of information request

Request

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

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