High Needs Provision Capital Allocations

Tuesday 13th April 2021 Written Statements

[The Minister for School Standards (Nick Gibb)]

On 9 April, the Department for Education announced £280 million of capital funding to support local authorities to create new places and improve existing provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or who require alternative provision (AP). This investment will support our manifesto commitment to deliver more school places for children with complex special educational needs and will help ensure that every child has the opportunity to receive a world-class education, whatever their background.

The funding announced today is for places required for September 2022 and will allow local authorities to invest strategically to ensure they deliver a good quality and appropriate place for every child who needs one. It is on top of the £365 million we invested between 2018 and 2021 to support local authorities to deliver new places for children with education, health and care plans, and the additional places we are creating through our continued investment in new special and AP free schools.

Full details of this announcement, including allocations broken down by local authority and the methodology used to distribute funding, have been published on the Department for Education section on the gov.uk website here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-provision-capital-allocations.

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