Funding for special educational needs and disability (SEND)

Services

Help if you're a student with a learning difficulty, health problem or disability

Disabled Students' Allowance is extra money for higher education students - DSA1 forms, eligibility, how to apply, needs assessment.
Free school transport

Free transport from your local council - eligibility, rules for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), how to apply
Apply for school transport for a child with special educational needs and disabilities

If your child cannot walk to school because of their special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) your local council must provide transport
Exceptional learning support – cost form

Use these forms to submit estimated costs and final claims for exceptional learning support.

SEND Futures value for money feasibility study
- 5 November 2020
- Department for Education
- Research
Evaluation of Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs)
- 17 January 2019
- Department for Education
- Research
16 to 19 funding for students with additional needs
- 17 December 2015
- Department for Education
- Research
Funding for young people with special educational needs
- 16 July 2015
- Department for Education
- Research
SEND pathfinder programme: personal budgets
- 31 October 2014
- Department for Education
- Research

SEND review: right support, right place, right time
- 2 March 2023
- Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 22 July 2022
High needs funding reform
- 14 December 2016
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 17 April 2016
Funding for children and young people with SEND
- 21 July 2015
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 27 February 2015
SEND and AP provision: call for evidence
- 3 May 2019
- Department for Education
- Closed call for evidence
National prospectus grants programme: 2013 to 2015
- 1 May 2012
- Department for Education
- Policy paper

Delivering better value in SEND implementation plans: grant determination letter
- 24 November 2023
- Department for Education
- Transparency
SEND reform: S31 grant determinations
- 25 January 2018
- Department for Education
- Transparency
SEN funding
- 28 June 2010
- Department for Education
- Foi release