There can be no reversal of the real terms cuts that have already happened, and in addition, schools will have to cope with an added pressure in the number of pupils with SEND requiring support,
funded from the mainstream school budget.
Not exact matches
Places in
mainstream free
schools will be
funded on the same basis as those in a
mainstream academy, with deductions made
from the local authority in which the free
school is located.
core
funding - included within
mainstream schools» and academies budgets, derived
from their local
funding formula.
According to the BBC report, a letter sent to county councillors said the high needs
funding could be made up by taking money
from mainstream schools, but at the moment no official decision has been made.
Plans also include a new # 4million
fund to develop new ways to help children with additional needs move
from alternative provision into
mainstream education or special
schools and measures to drive up standards in alternative provision education settings.
Two associations, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and the National Association for
School Business Managers (NASBM), have raised concerns over plans to reduce «per place
funding» for
mainstream schools with special units
from # 10,000 to # 6,000.
The Department for Education (DfE) last week announced it was setting aside new
funds to improve special educational needs (SEND) provision in
mainstream schools from 2018 - 22.
For instance, the government wrote off # 1.8 million of claw - back
funding from Royal Greenwich UTC, which is converting to become a
mainstream secondary
school, because the debt would put «severe financial pressures» on its new sponsor, University
Schools Trust, east London.
Pupils at AP academies and other private providers are
funded at whatever level they had at the
mainstream school they were excluded
from, according to a spokesperson for Islington council in London, which has both a PRU and an AP
school.
We are strongly opposed to plans to reduce per place
funding for
mainstream schools with special units
from # 10,000 to # 6,000, with the rest of the
funding dependent on the number of pupils in the unit in any one year.
Plans also include a new # 4 million
fund to develop new ways to help children with additional needs move
from alternative provision in to
mainstream education or special
schools and measures to drive up standards in alternative provision education settings.