Consultation outcome

High needs national funding formula: stage 2

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 14 December 2016
• Last updated: 14 September 2017 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Analysis of and response to the high needs national funding formula consultation

Ref: DFE-00258-2017

PDF, 387 KB, 30 pages

Detail of outcome

Government response to the consultation, including a summary of responses received and details of next steps.

You can also read:

• national funding formula for schools and high needs policy paper
• national funding formula for schools and high needs: equalities impact assessment
• national funding formula allocations for schools and high needs
• high needs funding reform consultation
• schools national funding formula consultation
• schools national funding formula consultation: stage 2

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Original consultation

Summary

We are seeking views on the design of the high needs national funding formula and on changes to the way we distribute high needs funding.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
14 December 2016 to 11:45pm on 22 March 2017

Consultation description

We invite your views on:

• the weighting for each factor in the high needs national funding formula
• the transition to the formula
• the implementation of the formula

High needs funding is for children and young people with special educational needs or disability who need extra support at school, college or alternative provision settings. Alternative provision settings are for children who can’t go to a mainstream school.

This consultation builds on:

• the consultation on the principles and structure of a fairer system for funding high needs, which ran between March and April 2016
• results of research on funding for young people with special educational needs (SEN) by the Isos Partnership
• the call for evidence on changes to funding for children and young people with SEN, which ran between November 2014 and February 2015

We’re also consulting on changes to the schools national funding formula.

Published 14 December 2016
Last updated 14 September 2017 + show all updates

1. 14 September 2017

   Published government response to the consultation.

2. 14 December 2016

   First published.