Mapping the Children with a disability population

Short term breaks

3rd July 2008

Performance Management

Mapping by age group

• Using home postcodes

• Plot Children with a disability by age groups:– 0-5 years– 6-13 years– 14-25 years

Mapping by disability type

• Autism: autism, autism/MLD, autism SLD• Medical Conditions: epilepsy, medical• LD: dyslexia, dyspraxia, GLD, MLD, SLD, SPLD• Sensory Impairment: speech& language, visually

impaired, hearing impaired• PD: cerebral palsy, downs syndrome & physical

disability• EB: behaviour and emotional & behavioural

difficulty.

Methodology

• Sources:– Additional Needs children with a statement– ICS/SWIFT – children in receipt of a Social

Care Service

• Warnings:– Not all children in Lincolnshire– Not all children had a postcode that could be

mapped– Not all children had a specified disability.

Age Group

• Numbers in age group for the County:– 0-5 years

• 151

– 6-13 years• 1981

– 14-25 years• 1917

Disability Type

Type Number

Autism 591

EBD 650

LD 1565

Medical Condition 329

Not Specified 8

PD 198

Sensory Impairment 760

Total 4101

Next Steps

• How do we get a total population?– Health?

• Look at distribution versus services– Location– Accessibility?

• NOTE: The population will change.