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<p>The department announced on 16 December that high needs funding for children and
young people with complex needs is increasing in financial year 2022-23 by £1 billion
to over £9.1 billion.</p><p>This unprecedented increase of 13% comes on top of the
£1.5 billion increase over the last 2 years and will continue to support local authorities
and schools with the increasing costs they are facing. Every local authority will
attract an increase of at least 12% per head of the 2 to 18-year-old population in
financial year 2022-23, with some local authorities seeing increases of up to 16%
compared to the previous year.</p><p>As well as substantial increases in high needs
funding for all local authorities, we are also targeting extra support for those authorities
in the most financial difficulty and reviewing the overall system of support for children
and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p>The
SEND Review is considering all elements of the SEND system, and the outcome of that
review will be published in the first quarter of 2022 as a green paper for full public
consultation.</p><p> </p>
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