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To ask His Majesty's Government what safeguards they will retain to ensure national consistency in educational standards following the implementation of plans to reform funding for special educational needs and disabilities provision in mainstream and specialist schools.
To ask His Majesty's Government what safeguards they will retain to ensure national consistency in educational standards following the implementation of plans to reform funding for special educational needs and disabilities provision in mainstream and specialist schools.
We have appointed an independent panel of experts, led by education and health co-chairs, to advise on what approaches, strategies, and tools should be included in the National Inclusion Standards and Specialist Provision Packages.
The Standards will set out the provision that ordinarily should be in every setting across the 0 to 25 system. This is in addition to the evidence-based tools, strategies and approaches for educators to support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
Specialist Provision Packages describe the support available for children and young people with the most complex needs. These measures are designed to create a consistent, high-quality offer, wherever they live, thereby ending the post code lottery of support.
We will develop a national cost framework for these packages, and we expect to engage with stakeholders and consult on any new funding arrangements in due course.
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to reform funding for special educational needs and disabilities provision in mainstream and specialist schools.
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to reform funding for special educational needs and disabilities provision in mainstream and specialist schools.
The department has published the ‘Every Child Achieving and Thriving’ Schools White Paper, alongside a special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) consultation, which set out our plans for reform, including those relating to funding. We have also published additional information on SEND Reform for those leading and working in mainstream schools, and a summary of what the SEND reforms mean for specialist provision, including special schools, which are available on GOV.UK.
In taking forward these plans, our aim is both to establish a fair mainstream school funding system that directs funding to where it is needed, enabling improved support for children with SEND, and to create a fair, transparent system that gives specialist schools stable, predictable funding to deliver high-quality education and integrated support for children with the most complex needs. We will consult on proposals for specific funding changes as these plans are further developed.
My Lords, I too welcome my noble friend to her place on the Front Bench. Does the Minister agree that we should congratulate and celebrate the 500 schools in this country that have added most value to the pupils attending them, rather than trying to pick holes in their performance?
My Lords, I too welcome my noble friend to her place on the Front Bench. Does the Minister agree that we should congratulate and celebrate the 500 schools in this country that have added most value to the pupils attending them, rather than trying to pick holes in their performance?
I am not quite sure what the noble Baroness is referring to. I am always more than happy to celebrate the work of teachers and others in schools across this country that achieve enormously important progress for children every day. What is more, as a Government we have a responsibility to ensure that is available in as widespread a way as possible.
I thank the Minister for that Answer. On this side of the House, we genuinely wish the Government every success with their work on the reforms to the special educational needs system. As the noble Baroness knows, the expected annual deficit on the dedicated schools grant is over £6 billion in 2028-29, which is a huge number. While the Government have been very clear that this will come from current RDEL allocations, they have not specified a funding plan to cover this. Anyone who has been involved in SR negotiations will know that finding £6.3 billion, apparently from other government departments rather than the DfE, will be incredibly difficult, if not impossible.
Of course, this is not even about £6.3 billion in one year; in the OBR document, if you look at the three years beyond this SR period, you see that the figure for the projected deficit is well over £20 billion. So I hope the noble Baroness will understand why schools and parents are worried, and why more clarity is needed about who is going to pay for this. I hope she can give us that now.
I thank the Minister for that Answer. On this side of the House, we genuinely wish the Government every success with their work on the reforms to the special educational needs system. As the noble Baroness knows, the expected annual deficit on the dedicated schools grant is over £6 billion in 2028-29, which is a huge number. While the Government have been very clear that this will come from current RDEL allocations, they have not specified a funding plan to cover this. Anyone who has been involved in SR negotiations will know that finding £6.3 billion, apparently from other government departments rather than the DfE, will be incredibly difficult, if not impossible.
Of course, this is not even about £6.3 billion in one year; in the OBR document, if you look at the three years beyond this SR period, you see that the figure for the projected deficit is well over £20 billion. So I hope the noble Baroness will understand why schools and parents are worried, and why more clarity is needed about who is going to pay for this. I hope she can give us that now.
I take the noble Baroness’s assurance that noble Lords opposite want to support the Government in reforming the SEND system; I believe that to be true. However, it is also the case that there has been a fair amount of misinformation being peddled, not least by some of her colleagues at the other end of Parliament, about the nature and source of the £6 billion, and the way in which it will be dealt with in 2028-29. As I made clear in the original Answer, in the Budget the Treasury was very clear, in careful wording, that future funding implications will be managed within the overall Government DEL envelope—not the DfE’s DEL—and will be part of the spending review that will start in 2027.
The other important point is that that figure assumes no reform of the SEND system, and of course that reform will be focused first and foremost on ensuring that children and their families get better outcomes than they are getting from the system at the moment, and it will be important to ensure that that happens. It will also make system more sustainable.
I hope that all those interested in SEND reform will, for example, take part in the quite extensive engagement activity that is currently under way to help to inform those reforms.
To ask His Majesty’s Government how the commitment to fund SEND budgets centrally as announced in the Budget will affect mainstream school budgets.
To ask His Majesty’s Government how the commitment to fund SEND budgets centrally as announced in the Budget will affect mainstream school budgets.
My Lords, the Government have been clear that SEND pressures will be absorbed within the overall Government DEL budget from 2028-29, such that the Government would not expect local authorities to need to fund future special educational needs costs from general funds. Budgets from 2028-29 onwards, including the core schools budget, will be confirmed at the 2027 spending review.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) pupils’ access to education following the concerns of the Special Education Needs and Disabilities Transport Operators Group that the increase in National Insurance contributions will affect their ability to take children to school...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) pupils’ access to education following the concerns of the Special Education Needs and Disabilities Transport Operators Group that the increase in National Insurance contributions will affect their ability to take children to school...
Home-to-school travel is an integral part of the school system. It provides a valuable service on which many families rely. The department is grateful to the many transport operators for the crucial role they play in ensuring that children receive the education that they need to help them thrive.
Departmental officials engage regularly with local authorities to understand the challenges they face and will continue to monitor this situation. We do not expect there to be a significant impact on home-to-school travel for children with special educational needs and disabilities. Local authorities are responsible for arranging home-to-school travel and deliver this through a range of in-house services and external providers.
The government recognises the need to protect the smallest employers. It has more than doubled the Employment Allowance to £10,500 which means that more than half of businesses with National Insurance liabilities will either gain or see no change next year. Businesses will still be able to claim employer National Insurance contributions relief, where eligible.
Lords statement on the 2023-2024 core school budget allocations.
Lords statement on the 2023-2024 core school budget allocations.
Lords report stage first day. (Part 2 of 2).
Lords report stage first day. (Part 2 of 2).
Lords committee stage fourth day. Clauses 39 to 45 agreed to. Schedule 3 agreed to, as amended. Clauses 46 and 47 agreed to. Clause 48 under consideration.
Lords committee stage fourth day. Clauses 39 to 45 agreed to. Schedule 3 agreed to, as amended. Clauses 46 and 47 agreed to. Clause 48 under consideration.
Lords consideration of Commons amendments and reasons. Commons amendments 1 and 2 agreed to. Amendment to Commons amendment 3 disagreed to on division (133 to 138). Commons amendments 3 to 14 agreed to. Amendment 15B to Commons amendment 15 agreed to on division (138 to 125). Amendment to Commons amendment 16 disagreed to on division (96 to 126). Commons amendment 16 agreed to. Amendments 17E and 17F to Commons amendment 17 disagreed to on division (83 to 144). Commons amendment 17 agreed to with amendments 17B and 17C. Commons amendments 18 to 20 agreed to. Amendment 21B to commons amendment 21 disagreed to on division (62 to 132). Commons amendments 21 to 27 agreed to. Bill returned to the Commons with amendments.
Lords consideration of Commons amendments and reasons. Commons amendments 1 and 2 agreed to. Amendment to Commons amendment 3 disagreed to on division (133 to 138). Commons amendments 3 to 14 agreed to. Amendment 15B to Commons amendment 15 agreed to on division (138 to 125). Amendment to Commons amendment...
Lords debate on Queen's speech (sixth day) on health, social care, education, culture, welfare and pensions. Motion on royal address agreed to nemine dissentiente.
Lords debate on Queen's speech (sixth day) on health, social care, education, culture, welfare and pensions. Motion on royal address agreed to nemine dissentiente.