Some children and young people with particularly complex needs have specific support from Children’s Social Care and or Health identified in their Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs). In the past all, or the majority of these costs have been paid through the High Needs Funding Block (HNFB).
Children’s Social Care and Health are also under funding pressure, but we have been working with them to identify what the right contributions from the right budgets should be.
Contributions to costs have been agreed in principle from Children’s Social Care and Health and we are working towards these being fully paid from the financial year 2020-21.