Special Educational Needs: Admissions

(asked on 13th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to provide more school places for children with complex special educational needs.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 16th January 2020

The Government is committed to investing in school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

The Department has allocated £365 million to local authorities across 2018 to 2021 through the Special Provision Capital Fund. This funding supports local authorities to create places for pupils with SEND. This funding also improves facilities for them in mainstream and special schools, nurseries, colleges and other education providers. The Department will continue to keep capital funding for pupils with SEND under review ahead of the next Spending Review.

In addition to this, 43 new Special Free Schools have opened since 2012 with a further 48 approved to open in the future. This will provide an additional 5,000 high quality new places. The Department also approved bids from local authorities for 37 new Special Schools and hope to announce the successful trusts to run these schools early this year.

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