Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 18331

Special Educational Needs: Rural Areas

Tabled: 5 December 2024
Answered: 7 January 2025

Question

Cameron Thomas

IndependentTewkesbury

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 McKinnell
Local 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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