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Research on funding for young people with special educational needs: research report
- Authors:
- PARISH Natalie, BRYANT Ben
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 154
- Place of publication:
- London
A research study into funding arrangements and practices for young people with special educational needs, providing insights into the way funding is spent, the reasons for differences between spending patterns in different local authorities, and the options for changing the ways in which high-needs funding is distributed in future. Drawing on a review of the existing literature, fieldwork visits to 13 local education systems and analysis of options for a future funding system, the report focuses on the mechanics of funding in relation to national-to-local distribution, early years, mainstream schools, special schools, post-16 providers and top-up funding and identifies areas that are working well and what is proving more challenging. The report suggests that while there remain a number of areas in which the SEN funding system is not yet working as well as it could, the fundamental ideas that underpinned the 2013 funding reforms have undoubtedly moved the system forward in a positive way. The report sets out 17 proposals for the Department of Education to consider on how the SEN funding system might be improved. These fall into three different categories, as they are designed to: shine a light on effective practice and on how the current system is intended to work; improve the way in which funding is allocated to make it either fairer, more transparent or to ensure that it is better targeted at need; and enable better decision-making by frontline professionals. (Edited publisher abstract)