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Special Educational Needs: Finance

Asked by Neil Duncan-JordanLabourDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 22 December 2025UIN 98570

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of centralising SEND funding on the needs of individual children.

Answered by Georgia Gould

The department is not planning to centralise special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) funding.

The department is 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. We will be setting out further steps in the new year and are keeping under review the funding arrangements to help ensure that mainstream schools are inclusive for children with SEND. It is important that we establish a fair school funding system that directs funding to where it is needed.

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