Special Educational Needs: Warrington
(asked on 22nd November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will estimate the change in high needs expenditure in Warrington since 2013; and if she will estimate how much of this expenditure has been required as a result of Government education reforms introduced since 2013.
Local authority school and high needs expenditure is published in section 251 and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251-materials.
Warrington Borough Council’s schools and high needs expenditure for the financial years 2013-14 to 2016-17 is as follows:
| 2013-14* (outturn) | 2014-15* (outturn) | 2015-16 (budget) | 2016-17 (budget) |
Schools expenditure | £121.1 million | £86.9 million | £120.8 million | £122.5 million |
High needs expenditure | £14.0 million | £18.3 million | £17.7 million | £17.9 million |
* Figures are after academy recoupment so are not comparable to 2015-16 and 2016-17, which are before academy recoupment
The figures show that both schools expenditure and high needs expenditure are budgeted to increase between 2015-16 and 2016-17.