Funding for high needs

Information for local authorities and institutions about high needs funding for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Guidance and regulation

High needs provision capital allocations
- Guidance
- 27 March 2025
- Department for Education
High needs funding arrangements: 2025 to 2026
- Guidance
- 31 March 2025
- Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
High needs funding arrangements: 2024 to 2025
- Guidance
- 19 December 2024
- Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
High needs benchmarking tool
- Guidance
- 4 November 2024
- Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
High needs funding: due diligence process for special post-16 providers
- Guidance
- 16 October 2024
- Department for Education and Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency

拢7 million for vulnerable pupils leaving Alternative Provision
- 4 June 2020
- Department for Education
- Press release
Education Secretary confirms plans to simplify school accountability
- 3 May 2019
- Department for Education
- Press release
Education Secretary to work with sector on special needs funding
- 3 May 2019
- Department for Education
- Press release
School revenue funding settlement for 2017 to 2018
- 20 December 2016
- Department for Education and Closed organisation: Education Funding Agency
- Written statement
Plans to end the postcode lottery of school funding revealed
- 14 December 2016
- Department for Education
- Press release

High needs national funding formula: stage 2
- 14 September 2017
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 22 March 2017
National funding formula for schools and high needs
- 13 October 2023
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
National funding formula for schools and high needs: equalities impact assessment
- 14 September 2017
- Department for Education
- Impact assessment
Schools national funding formulae: equalities impact assessment
- 14 December 2016
- Department for Education
- Impact assessment

High needs: allocated place numbers
- 31 March 2025
- Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
- Transparency