Funding for high needs

Information for local authorities and institutions about high needs funding for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

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Guidance and regulation

• High needs funding arrangements: 2025 to 2026
  • Guidance
  • 31 March 2025
  • Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
• High needs provision capital allocations
  • Guidance
  • 27 March 2025
  • Department for Education
• High needs funding arrangements: 2024 to 2025
  • Guidance
  • 19 December 2024
  • Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
• High needs benchmarking tool
  • Guidance
  • 4 November 2024
  • Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
• High needs funding: due diligence process for special post-16 providers
  • Guidance
  • 16 October 2024
  • Department for Education and Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency

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News and communications

• 拢7 million for vulnerable pupils leaving Alternative Provision
  • 4 June 2020
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• Education Secretary confirms plans to simplify school accountability
  • 3 May 2019
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• Education Secretary to work with sector on special needs funding
  • 3 May 2019
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• School revenue funding settlement for 2017 to 2018
  • 20 December 2016
  • Department for Education and Closed organisation: Education Funding Agency
  • Written statement
• Plans to end the postcode lottery of school funding revealed
  • 14 December 2016
  • Department for Education
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• High needs budgets: effective management in local authorities
  • 23 June 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• One-to-one tuition pilot course evaluation: final report
  • 8 October 2010
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• High needs national funding formula: stage 2
  • 14 September 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 22 March 2017
• National funding formula for schools and high needs
  • 13 October 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• National funding formula for schools and high needs: equalities impact assessment
  • 14 September 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Impact assessment
• Schools national funding formulae: equalities impact assessment
  • 14 December 2016
  • Department for Education
  • Impact assessment

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• High needs: allocated place numbers
  • 31 March 2025
  • Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Department for Education