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<p>Funding for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is drawn
from the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG).</p><p>Local authorities are required to provide
sufficient funds, from the schools block of the DSG, to enable mainstream schools
to meet the cost of additional support for pupils with SEND, up to the value of £6,000.</p><p>When
the costs of additional support required for a pupil with SEND exceed £6,000, the
local authority should also allocate additional top-up funding to cover the excess
costs. This top-up funding, and funding for special schools comes from the local authority’s
high needs block on the DSG.</p><p>In 2013, the schools and high needs blocks within
the DSG were created. As the DSG includes other budgets such as the early years budget,
the department is unable to provide comparable figures before the creation of the
blocks within the DSG in 2013-14.</p><p>Schools and high needs funding allocations
for 2013-14 to 2019-20 are as follows. The department does not hold funding information
for SEND support at a constituency level, or for Merseyside. We do not use the level
of children and young people with SEND to determine the rate of funding for an area.
As funding for children and young people with SEND is drawn from both the schools
and high needs blocks, and there is not a ringfenced amount within the schools block
for children and young people with SEND, we are unable to give an average figure.</p><p>In
Wirral:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Schools
funding amount</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>High needs funding amount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£188.0
million</p></td><td><p>£32.3 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£187.5
million</p></td><td><p>£33.6 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£191.3
million</p></td><td><p>£34.0 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£192.7
million</p></td><td><p>£33.7 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£195.9
million</p></td><td><p>£35.1 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£198.7
million</p></td><td><p>£35.8 million*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£202.9
million</p></td><td><p>£36.9 million*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In the
North West:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Schools
funding amount</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>High needs funding amount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£4,174.5
million</p></td><td><p>£674.2 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£4,190.6
million</p></td><td><p>£709.1 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£4,339.6
million</p></td><td><p>£719.2 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£4,398.7
million</p></td><td><p>£726.1 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£4,513.8
million</p></td><td><p>£751.5 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£4,590.1
million</p></td><td><p>£787.1 million*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£4,703.5
million</p></td><td><p>£810.3 million*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* In
December 2018, the department allocated an additional £250 million of high needs funding
across 2018-19 and 2019-20, in recognition of funding pressures. This additional funding
is included within the final totals displayed.</p><p>In 2020-21, we will provide more
than £700 million in additional high needs funding, bringing the national high needs
funding total to over £7 billion. Every local authority will receive a minimum increase
of 8% per head of their population aged 2-18 years old. We will provide provisional
allocations to local authorities in October.</p>
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