Is all the funding for children and young people with special needs being cut?

Question:
Is all the funding for children and young people with special needs being cut?
Answer:

No.

In addition to the funding schools already get for all pupils, there is an annual grant from the Government, called the High Needs Funding Block (HNFB). This is funding is for children and young people with Special needs and children and young people in alternative education provision.

 

Last year the council received about £49 million in the HNFB.

Children’s social care and health services also have funds for children with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

All of these strands of funding will continue each year. However, School budgets as a whole are reducing annually as a consequence of overall fall in government funding.