Special Educational Needs: Warrington

(asked on 30th April 2019) - View Source
Questioner
Helen Jones Portrait
Helen Jones
(Labour - Warrington North)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much high needs funding was allocated to Warrington in each year since 2010.

Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 7th May 2019

Local authorities are required to provide schools with sufficient funds to enable schools to meet the additional cost of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities, up to the value of £6,000. This funding comes from the schools’ block of the dedicated schools grant (DSG).

When the costs of additional support required for a pupil with SEN exceed £6,000, the local authority should also allocate additional top-up funding to cover the excess costs. This top-up funding, and funding for special schools comes from the local authority’s high needs budget. In December 2018, we announced an additional £250 million in high needs funding up to 2020, bringing Warrington’s total high needs funding to £20.278 million in 2019-20.

In 2013, the schools and high needs budgets within the DSG were created. As the DSG includes other budgets such as the early years budget, the department is unable to provide comparable figures before 2013-14.

The schools and high needs allocations for Warrington since 2013-14 can be found at the following links:

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