Education: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to establish a fair funding formula for (a) SEND and (b) education.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell
The department will take time to consider the various funding formulae that the department and local authorities use to allocate funding for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. It is important that there is a fair education funding system, that directs funding to where it is needed.
Budgets for the 2025/26 financial year have not yet been set which means that decisions on the high needs and schools national funding formulae as well as the publication of allocations for that year will not be to the usual timescales.
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