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<p>Local authorities are required to provide sufficient funds to enable schools to
meet the cost of additional support for pupils with special educational needs and
disabilities (SEND), up to the value of £6,000. This funding comes from the schools
block of the Dedicated Schools Grant.</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 budget. In 2020-21, the department
will provide more than £700 million, an 11% increase in one year, 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. The department will provide provisional allocations to local
authorities in October.</p><p>Below we have provided the schools and high needs funding
allocations for 2015-16 to 2019-20 for Yorkshire and the Humber, York, and England.
We have also provided the total number of children with both SEND support and education,
health and care plans, although this does not include young people in further education.
The department also does not hold specific figures on how much of each local authority’s
schools’ budget has been spent on SEND.</p><p>The schools and high needs funding allocations
for 2015-16 to 2019-20 are as follows:</p><p>Yorkshire and the Humber:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Schools
funding amount</p></td><td><p>High needs funding amount</p></td><td><p>Total SEND
numbers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£3,243.3 million</p></td><td><p>£436.2
million</p></td><td><p>126,544</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£3,278.5
million</p></td><td><p>£442.1 million</p></td><td><p>117,711</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£3,334.7
million</p></td><td><p>£476.3 million</p></td><td><p>119,673</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£3,389.8
million</p></td><td><p>£512.6 million*</p></td><td><p>102,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£3,474.6
million</p></td><td><p>£531.9 million*</p></td><td><p>129,674</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>York:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Schools funding
amount</p></td><td><p>High needs funding amount</p></td><td><p>Total SEND numbers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£91.1
million</p></td><td><p>£15.2 million</p></td><td><p>3,150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£92.2
million</p></td><td><p>£15.5 million</p></td><td><p>3,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£93.0
million</p></td><td><p>£18.1 million</p></td><td><p>3,178</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£94.1
million</p></td><td><p>£19.1 million*</p></td><td><p>3,367</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£98.2
million</p></td><td><p>£19.5 million*</p></td><td><p>3,409</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>England:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Schools funding
amount</p></td><td><p>High needs funding amount</p></td><td><p>Total SEND numbers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£32,168.1
million</p></td><td><p>£5246.5 million</p></td><td><p>1,301,444</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£32,650.3
million</p></td><td><p>£5300.0 million</p></td><td><p>1,228,787</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£33,093.6
million</p></td><td><p>£5826.8 million</p></td><td><p>1,244,253</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£33,684.0
million</p></td><td><p>£6114.3 million*</p></td><td><p>1,276,216</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£34,502.5
million</p></td><td><p>£6270.6 million*</p></td><td><p>1,318,328</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>* In December 2018, the department allocated an additional £250 million of
high needs funding, in recognition of funding pressures. This additional funding is
included within the final totals provided.</p><p> </p>
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