FOI Request - Reduced Part Time Timetables Education Schools

Request 101003854177

Scope and timeframe

Please provide the following recorded information for local-authority schools for the period academic years 2015/16 to 2024/25 (year-to-date) and, where specified, monthly from 1 August 2023 to the most recent complete month:

A. Monthly time-series (service-level, Aug 2023 – latest):
Number of pupils on a reduced/part-time timetable.
Average hours per week provided for pupils on reduced timetables (mean and median, if held).
Counts by phase (Primary/Secondary/Special).
Counts by main reason category used locally (e.g., phased reintegration, medical/ASN, behaviour/safety, other).

B. Annual indicators (2015/16 – 2024/25 YTD):
Unique pupils placed on a reduced/part-time timetable in each year, by phase.
Average and median duration (weeks) of reduced timetable arrangements, if recorded.
Number of pupils whose reduced timetable extended beyond 6 weeks.
Where routinely held, service-level totals by protected characteristic proxy (e.g., sex; ASN status), in aggregate only.

C. Policy, coding and templates:
The definition you use for “reduced/part-time timetable” and the reason categories/codes in use (with any definitions).
Any current policy/guidance and template or approval form used for authorising, reviewing and ending reduced timetables (including review period).

D. Management information:
Any management/committee reports since 1 August 2023 summarising reduced/part-time timetable usage or trends.
Format
Please supply the data in a machine-readable format (CSV or XLSX). For datasets, fields like academic_year or month, phase, reason_category, pupils_on_reduced_timetable, avg_hours_per_week_mean, avg_hours_per_week_median, over_6_weeks would be helpful.

Disclosure control / personal data
I seek aggregate, anonymised figures only and no personal data. Where necessary, please apply standard disclosure control (e.g., suppress values <5).

Advice & assistance / cost
If you estimate this may exceed the section 12 cost limit, please advise under section 15 how I can refine it—for example, service-level only, fewer years, or limiting reason categories to those routinely reported.
Published information
If any of the requested information is already published (section 25), please provide the direct URL and the exact document/table location.

Information not held / exemptions
If any part of the request is not held (section 17), please state this explicitly.
If you intend to withhold information, please provide a schedule of documents/fields withheld, the exemption/exception relied upon (e.g., s30/s33 FOISA or EIR 10), and the public-interest test where applicable.