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<p>A great education is fundamental to the success of children, their families, and
our communities, as well as the success of our country. That is why we are giving
schools the largest cash boost in a decade, which will give every school more money
for every child. We are increasing core schools funding by £2.6 billion in the 2020/21
financial year, including an additional £780 million for children with complex special
educational needs and disabilities (SEND), compared to the 2019/20 financial year.
In the 2021/22 financial year, our funding for high needs will increase by a further
£730 million, or 10%, bringing the total high needs budget to over £8 billion. High
needs funding is allocated to local authorities through the Dedicated Schools Grant
(DSG).</p><p>We do not prescribe in detail how schools should spend their funding
allocations, nor how local authorities should allocate their high needs funding, but
local authorities and schools have statutory duties under the Children and Families
Act (2014) to support children and young people with SEND. Local authorities must
also spend DSG funding in line with the conditions of grant. Further information on
these conditions is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2020-to-2021/dsg-conditions-of-grant-2020-to-2021"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2020-to-2021/dsg-conditions-of-grant-2020-to-2021</a>.</p><p>We
have published the ‘Dedicated Schools Grant technical note 2020 to 2021’ which explains
how the DSG allocations for this year are calculated, and the ‘schools and high needs
national funding formula allocation tables for 2020/21’ show the allocations for each
local authority, and the values used to calculate the final allocation. These are
available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2020-to-2021/dsg-technical-note-2020-to-2021"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2020-to-2021/dsg-technical-note-2020-to-2021</a>
and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for-schools-and-high-needs-2020-to-2021"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for-schools-and-high-needs-2020-to-2021</a>.
The funding formula includes a range of proxies to reflect the underlying level of
need in each local area, as well as factors to reflect the local SEND system.</p><p>
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