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Getting to know the new SEN2 survey requirements at a ‘person-level’

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In early 2023, the Department for Education’s (DfE) new “Special Educational Needs Person Level Survey”, commonly known as SEN2, will be submitted by all local authorities for the first time.
Person-level returns provide greater consistency, experts say. Picture: Liquidlogic
Person-level returns provide greater consistency, experts say. Picture: Liquidlogic

The new survey replaces the similarly named, but very different, “Special Educational Needs Survey”. 

The retired survey was a form that was completed on the DfE’s website. The form asked for counts for various characteristics of children in the process of applying for, or in receipt of, an Education, Health, and Care Plan (EHC Plan). 

For the past several years, Liquidlogic has provided a report that performed the calculations required to complete the survey form.  

The DfE provided guidance that was clarified and tweaked each year, and we used that guidance, combined with our knowledge of how information is recorded in the Liquidlogic case management system, to produce the relevant numbers that could then be typed into the government department’s form. 

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