Nursery World - Early years sector's views sought on school and SEN funding

Changes to the way children with special educational needs and disabilities are funded in early years settings and schools have been put out for consultation, as part of wider reforms to schools funding.

Ministers are asking for views both on the schools national funding formula and a high needs funding formula.

The Department for Education said that the schools funding consultation was the start of a move towards a system where school funding is allocated on a consistent national formula.

From 2019-2020, funding will go directly to schools from central Government, bypassing local authorities completely, in changes set out by education secretary Nicky Morgan.

While local authorities’ role in basic funding allocations will be phased out, the DfE said they would continue to play a vital role in distributing ‘significant additional funding’ to help pupils with high-level special educational needs and disabilities ‘on a fair and formulaic basis, so that no pupil is disadvantaged simply by where they live.’

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