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<p>We are currently consulting on arrangements for new national formulae for schools
and high needs funding (funding to provide high cost support for children and young
people with special educational needs and disabilities). Both funding streams, along
with early years funding, make up the dedicated schools grant (DSG), which is ring-fenced
so that local authorities can only spend it on specified elements of education. The
DSG will continue to be ring-fenced when the national funding formulae are in place.
We have also protected the schools and high needs budgets in this Parliament. This
year we are adding £92.5 million to local authorities’ 2016-17 high needs allocations.</p><p>At
the Budget we also announced that we will provide £500 million over the Spending Review
period, on top of per pupil protection, to speed up implementation of the national
funding formula for schools and get extra funding quicker to those schools that need
it most.</p>
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