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<p>Nationally, high needs funding has risen by £1 billion since 2013-14, to just under
£6 billion in 2018-19, and will rise to over £6 billion in 2019-20. The additional
£1.3 billion announced last year for schools and high needs is above and beyond what
was promised at the 2015 spending review, and means that local authorities received
an additional £140 million in high needs funding in 2018-19. Allocations for each
local authority this year can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p>Each
local authority will attract a 1% increase in underlying funding per head of the population
aged 2-18 years old in 2018-19 compared to 2017-18, following the increase of 0.5%
they attracted last year. Underfunded authorities will continue to see higher increases
– of up to 6% per head of of the population aged 2-18 years old, compared to 2017-18.</p><p>We
are listening to the concerns that some have expressed about the pressures on high
needs budgets. We are monitoring the impact of our national funding formula for high
needs on local authority spending decisions, and are keeping the overall amount of
funding for high needs under review.</p>
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