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<p>Information on the number of qualified teachers of the deaf is not collected centrally.</p><p>The
department is firmly committed to ensuring that children with special education needs
and disabilities (SEND), including hearing impairments, receive the support they need
to achieve in their early years, at school and college. High needs funding, which
is specifically for supporting children with more complex SEND, will be increasing
by £780 million in the financial year 2022-23. This comes on top of the over £1.5
billion increase over the previous two years and will bring the overall total of funding
for high needs to £8.9 billion. Within that total, the provisional allocation to the
London Borough of Barnet is £65.3 million, an 8% per head increase on the £60.5 million
of high needs funding that council is receiving this financial year. Decisions about
how that funding is used, including for the employment of specialist teachers for
deaf children, are made by local authorities.</p>
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