Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional funding his Department provides to schools to support students with special educational needs in (a) North Cornwall and (b) England.

Funding for students with special educational needs (SEN) is contained within the high needs block of the dedicated schools grant. In 2017-18 this funding came to £5.8 billion for England, and in 2018-19 this will rise to £6 billion.

The first £6,000 of additional funding for SEN pupils comes from schools’ budgets. Beyond this, high needs funding, which is allocated to local authorities, is spent in consultation with their schools forum.

In 2017-18 Cornwall was allocated £39 million to be used for this purpose, and in 2018-19 this will rise by 3.6 per cent to £40.4 million. This information is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019.