Education Breakdown

FORTNIGHTLY DFE SNAPSHOT - BACKLOGS, EXCLUSIONS, MISSING CHILDREN, SYSTEM STRAIN

England's education system is failing long before a pupil ever reaches the classroom door

This page keeps itself updated from official Department for Education releases. The focus is on backlog, exclusion, missing children and delayed support. Illness is shown only as context, not as the main indictment.

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EHC Plans Live ?

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Active EHC plans in England.

EHC Plans On Time ?

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Share issued within the 20-week legal deadline.

Children Missing Education

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Autumn term snapshot of children missing education.

Autumn Suspensions

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Latest published autumn term suspensions.

Persistent Absence

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Share of pupils classed as persistently absent year to date.

Unauthorised Absence

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Latest weekly change in absence that schools could not sign off.

Weekly Absence Pressure

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Official weekly attendance release.

Teacher Vacancies

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Vacant teacher posts in total state-funded schools.

System Backlog

EHCP Pressure ?

This is where decline becomes concrete: more plans, more requests, and too many children waiting past the legal deadline for support.

Top EHC Plan Needs ?

Worst EHCP Timeliness ?

Children Falling Through The System

These are the spillover signs of a stretched system: children missing education, growing special-needs caseloads, teacher shortages and more young people disconnected altogether.

Worst Children Missing Education Rates

Worst Performing Areas

Where The System Is Breaking Fastest

Switch between local-authority tables for persistent absence, exclusion, delayed support and children missing from education altogether.

Exclusions Machine

Suspension Drivers

Who Gets Hit Hardest

Worst Suspension Rates

Method

Methodology And Sources

This page loads one local JSON snapshot, refreshed on a two-week cadence from DfE release downloads.