Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding he has made available for specific interventions designed to improve behaviour in (a) England, (b) each region of England and (c) each local authority area in England in each of the last fifteen years.

We do not hold the information in the format requested. Schools and local authority areas in England are not allocated funding specifically for behaviour as part of the schools grant. There have, however, been several individual programmes to fund behaviour interventions over the last fifteen years.

Up until financial year 2007/08, there was funding to support local authorities in integrating behaviour and attendance into the Secondary National Strategy. After 2007/08, this was merged into local government funding and became un-ringfenced. In financial year 2006/07, 130 local authorities received funding allocations between £40,980 and £183,300, with a total for England of £12,244,181. In financial year 2007/08, 148 local authorities received funding allocations between £40,980 and £183,300, with a total for England of £13,761,080. Further information on behaviour funding allocations per local authority between 2006 and 2008 is available in the attached table.

There was a Lead Behaviour School project in financial year 2010/11, through which several local authorities received £40,000 each for one year only. These local authorities were Wigan, North Yorkshire, Northumberland, Wiltshire, Somerset, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Essex, Leicester City, Coventry, Hammersmith and Fulham, Brent, Hampshire, Kent and Devon.

In April 2021, we launched the three year Behaviour Hubs programme, representing a £10 million investment in improving behaviour in schools. The programme enables schools with exemplary positive behaviour cultures to work closely with schools that want and need to turn around their behaviour, alongside a central offer of support and a taskforce of advisers. The aim is to improve their culture and spread good practice across the country.

There are currently 22 lead schools and 2 lead multi-academy trusts (MATs) across the country on the programme, representing 21 unique local authorities. In April 2022, a further 28 lead schools and 8 lead MATs, representing 25 different local authorities, will join the programme. When combined, this will mean that 43 unique local authorities will be the location of at least one Behaviour Hubs lead school and that all regions in England will be represented as part of the programme. We anticipate that, over the life of the programme, up to 700 partner schools will receive support from the Behaviour Hubs programme.