Special Educational Needs: Finance
Commons · Question 102938 · Tabled 5 Jan 2026 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that schools are not required to subsidise EHCP provision from their core budgets.
Answer
Answered by Georgia Gould, 13 Jan 2026
Since 2014, local authorities are have been required to allocate funding to their local mainstream schools according to a formula that includes factors relating to the likely incidence of special educational needs (SEN) amongst their pupils, and to identi...