Trauma-Informed Practice

1.1 Medway Council is a unitary authority with a population of 279,142 (based on 2020 mid-year estimates), 58,777 of which are aged 0-15 years old. Medway has 101 schools of which 5 are special schools, 2 alternative provision, 78 infant, junior and primary schools, 19 secondary and 1 college. Medway's proportion of pupils with an EHCP is 4.2% (2022/21), which is higher than the national average (4.0%). According to Medway's June 2022 Data Return to the DfE, 31.9% of children and young people with EHCPs are in main...