Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 71617

Special Educational Needs

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 5 September 2025

Question

James Naish

LabourRushcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will require local authorities to (a) recognise and (b) fund (i) safe spaces, (ii) full-time one-to-one support and (iii) other adaptations as core SEND provision.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
The department is providing an increase of £1 billion for high needs budgets in England in the 2025/26 financial year, following the Autumn Budget 2024. This brings total high needs funding for children and young people with special educational needs and ...

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