Special Educational Needs: Capital Investment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department will provide additional capital funding to schools to establish inclusion bases.
Answered by Georgia Gould
The department is investing at least £3.7 billion in high needs capital funding between 2025/2026 and 2029/2030, to support local authorities to provide places for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), or who require alternative provision .
This funding is expected to fund a transformative expansion of inclusion bases, as well as adaptations to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of mainstream settings. It can also be used to create special school places for pupils with the most complex needs.
In financial years 2025/26 and 2026/27, Lancashire has been allocated just under £19.7 million and just over £23.8 million respectively through High Needs Provision Capital Allocations.
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