Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 18331
Special Educational Needs: Rural Areas
Tabled: 5 December 2024
Answered: 7 January 2025
Question
Cameron Thomas
Independent — Tewkesbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to ensure that additional funding for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in mainstream schools is equitably distributed in rural areas.
Answer
Catherine McKinnellLocal authorities are responsible for allocating additional funding from their high needs budgets to mainstream schools for their pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The department is providing an increase of almost £1 billion f...
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