Special Educational Needs: Finance
Commons · Question 41242 · Tabled 25 Mar 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on local authorities' ability to meet special educational needs because of delays by local authorities in reviewing schools' funding requests for
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 2 Apr 2025
Mainstream schools are funded through the formula set by their local authority. The funding formula is decided by each local authority in consultation with its schools and often uses factors such as low prior attainment and free school meals to give an es...