Special Educational Needs: Finance
Commons · Question 66817 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating SEND funding to schools on the basis of their current cohort of pupils rather than the cohort in a previous academic year.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 15 Jul 2025
The schools national funding formula (NFF) operates on a lag, where schools are funded based on their pupils in the previous October census. This helps to give schools more certainty over funding levels, to aid their planning, and is particularly importan...