This is the detailed breakdown, line by line, of everything a council spends on support for children with special educational needs — each type of spending kept separate rather than added into one total. It matters because it lets you see exactly where the money goes: special school places, top-ups for individual pupils, private placements, and so on. There is no single "high vs low" reading here; it is the raw ingredients from which the totals and shares are built.
| name | hn_lines_1_2_x |
|---|---|
| dataset | 05-dsg-send-deficits |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric (one value per line) |
| unit | GBP |
| grain | local authority x financial year x expenditure line |
| role | feature |
| source | data/data/s251_alleducation_la_regional_national.csv (cp1252); geographic_level == 'Local authority'; every category_of_expenditure prefixed '1.2.' (1.2.1–1.2.13, incl. SEN support service, hospital education, alternative provision, therapies, direct payments); column net_expenditure |
| period | 2015-16 to 2024-25 |
| missingness | 'x' = not applicable, 'z' = suppressed — never treat as zero |
| score_note | A per-line bundle, superset of the other hn_* extracts; raw material rather than a variable. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
The full s251 High Needs expenditure block, kept per line. There is no pre-computed "total high needs" line in the file — totals must be constructed by summing these lines (plus hn_place_funding), skipping 'x'/'z' values.