Special Educational Needs: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of levels of funding for supporting pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
Answered by Georgia Gould
The department has allocated high needs funding of over £12 billion specifically for children and young people with complex special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in the current 2025/26 financial year. The funding announced at the 2025 Spending Review, which provided an increase of £4.2 billion for schools over the next three years, will enable a significant investment in the support available for pupils with SEND within mainstream schools, facilitating reform of the SEND system to make those schools more inclusive. We are continuing to engage closely with children, parents and experts as we develop plans to ensure all children get the outcomes and life chances they deserve.
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