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date	16/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Barnsley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding for special educational needs his Department has allocated from the public purse to schools in Barnsley in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	277812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are required, through their local school funding formulae, to provide schools with sufficient funds to enable schools to meet the additional cost of 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 December 2018, we announced an additional £250 million in high needs funding across the current financial year and the next. Barnsley council is receiving £23.2 million for high needs this year, including its share of the £250 million, which amounted to £1.1 million.</p><p>In 2013, the schools and high needs budgets within the Dedicated Schools Grant were created. As the Dedicated Schools Grant includes other budgets such as the early years budget, the department is unable to provide comparable figures before 2013-14.</p><p> </p><p>The schools and high needs allocations for the Yorkshire and the Humber and Barnsley regions since 2013-14 are set out in the below tables:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Yorkshire and the Humber</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Schools funding amount</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> High needs funding amount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>£3.1 billion</p></td><td><p>£412.8 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p>£3.1 billion</p></td><td><p>£430.7 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p>£3.2 billion</p></td><td><p>£436.2 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p>£3.3 billion</p></td><td><p>£442.1 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p>£3.3 billion</p></td><td><p>£476.3 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p>£3.4 billion</p></td><td><p>£512.6 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p>£3.5 billion</p></td><td><p>£531.9 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Schools funding amount</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> High needs funding amount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>£127.1 million</p></td><td><p>£17.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p>£126.9 million</p></td><td><p>£18.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p>£132.07 million</p></td><td><p>£18.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p>£133.7 million</p></td><td><p>£18.9 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p>£137.4 million</p></td><td><p>£21.5 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p>£142.9 million</p></td><td><p>£22.2 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p>£148.8 million</p></td><td><p>£23.2 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 277813 question first answered 22/07/2019 17:40:51 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1135591

registered interest
date	28/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Barnsley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the number of Education Health and Care Plans required in (a) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and (b) Barnsley Central constituency.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	270803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2019 answer text <p>​There were 2,133 Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans in Barnsley local authority in January 2019, a 15% increase on January 2018. Nationally an 11% increase was seen over the same period.</p><p>The number of EHC plans in Barnsley local authority is published in the Statements of SEN (special educational need) and EHC plans publication, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2019</a>. The latest publication contains the current position at January 2019, and the number of new plans created in the 2018 calendar year. Data on the total number of EHC plans is not available by parliamentary constituency.</p><p>Like most local authorities, Barnsley has seen a significant increase in both the caseload of EHC plans and the number of requests for statutory assessment following the introduction of the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reforms. This increase in activity at assessment stage is reflected throughout the SEND system.</p><p>​</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/07/2019 09:05:29 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1055800

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Barnsley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department has allocated to special needs provision in schools in Barnsley; and what the average allocation was for schools in England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	217584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are required to provide mainstream schools with sufficient funds to enable them to meet the additional cost of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities, up to the value of £6,000. This funding comes from the schools block of the dedicated schools grant. While authorities will identify a notional special educational needs (SEN) budget for each school within the school’s overall budget, that notional budget is not ring-fenced, and schools are expected to manage their overall budget to best meet the needs of all their pupils, including pupils with SEN.</p><p>When the costs of additional support required for a pupil with SEN exceed £6,000, the local authority should also allocate additional top-up funding to cover the excess costs. This top-up funding, and all funding for special schools comes from the local authority’s high needs budget. In December 2018, we announced an additional £250 million in high needs funding across the current financial year and the next, bringing Barnsley’s total high needs funding to £22.2 million in 2018-19.</p><p>The schools and high needs allocations for Barnsley since 2014-15 are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Schools</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>High needs</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£126.9 million</p></td><td><p>£18.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£132.1 million</p></td><td><p>£18.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£133.7 million</p></td><td><p>£18.9 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£137.4 million</p></td><td><p>£21.5 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£142.9 million</p></td><td><p>£22.2 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>As funding for special needs in mainstream schools’ budgets is not ring-fenced, the information on how much top-up funding Barnsley Council has allocated to the schools in Barnsley is not held centrally. It is not possible to provide a meaningful comparison of the average allocation for special needs provision in schools in Barnsley and England.</p><p>However, it is possible for Barnsley Council to compare their high needs spending with that of other local authorities using our high needs benchmarking tool which can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-strategic-planning-fund" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-strategic-planning-fund</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/02/2019 16:45:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis