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<p>The department is committed to ensuring that children and young people with Special
Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) get the support they need wherever they
live.</p><p>The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative
Provision (AP) Improvement Plan outlines the government’s mission to create a single,
national SEND and AP system; the proposal to develop National Standards is a fundamental
part of this. The Standards will set out what support should be available and who
is responsible for providing it to give families confidence and clarity on how the
needs of children and young people will be met. These Standards will apply nationally,
including London.</p><p>The SEND and AP Improvement Plan also sets out proposals
to improve the Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment and planning process,
by introducing standardised forms and processes, as well as supporting guidance to
provide greater consistency.</p><p>In addition, the department’s Delivering Better
Value programme aims to improve outcomes for children and young people and put the
SEND system on a more sustainable footing by funding high needs system transformation
in up to 55 local authorities, including the London Borough of Enfield, with significant
Dedicated Schools Grant deficits. It does so by providing diagnostic support to the
local authority, identifying opportunities to improve services and meeting children’s
needs better, and then grant funding the local authority’s plan.</p><p>Furthermore,
high needs funding to support children and young people with complex SEND is rising
to £10.1 billion in the 2023/24 financial year, which is an increase of over 50% compared
to 2019/20. Of this, the London Borough of Enfield’s high needs funding allocation
for 2023/24 is £76 million, which is an 11.5% per head increase compared to the amount
of high needs funding allocated in the 2022/23 financial year.</p><p> </p>
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