Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 55610

Special Educational Needs: Rural Areas

Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 9 June 2025

Question

Sarah Bool

ConservativeSouth Northamptonshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding her Department is providing for special educational needs provision in rural schools.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
The department recognises the essential role that small, rural schools play in their communities. The national funding formula (NFF) accounts for the particular challenges, including those of providing for pupils with special educational needs (SEN), face...

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