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Special Educational Needs: Barnsley

Answer

Local authorities are required, through their local school funding formulae, to provide schools with sufficient funds to enable schools to meet the additional cost of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), up to the value of £6,000. This funding comes from the schools block of the Dedicated Schools Grant.

When the costs of additional support required for a pupil with SEND 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 across the current financial year and the next. Barnsley council is receiving £23.2 million for high needs this year, including its share of the £250 million, which amounted to £1.1 million.

In 2013, the schools and high needs budgets within the Dedicated Schools Grant were created. As the Dedicated Schools Grant 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 the Yorkshire and the Humber and Barnsley regions since 2013-14 are set out in the below tables:

Yorkshire and the Humber

Year	Schools funding amount	High needs funding amount
2013-14	£3.1 billion	£412.8 million
2014-15	£3.1 billion	£430.7 million
2015-16	£3.2 billion	£436.2 million
2016-17	£3.3 billion	£442.1 million
2017-18	£3.3 billion	£476.3 million
2018-19	£3.4 billion	£512.6 million
2019-20	£3.5 billion	£531.9 million

Year	Schools funding amount	High needs funding amount
2013-14	£127.1 million	£17.4 million
2014-15	£126.9 million	£18.4 million
2015-16	£132.07 million	£18.4 million
2016-17	£133.7 million	£18.9 million
2017-18	£137.4 million	£21.5 million
2018-19	£142.9 million	£22.2 million
2019-20	£148.8 million	£23.2 million

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

277812

Session

2017-19

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Finance Schools Special educational needs Barnsley

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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