High needs provision capital allocations
Local authority funding to support the provision of new places and improve existing provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities or requiring alternative provision.
Applies to England
Documents
Details
High needs provision capital allocations are provided to local authorities to support the provision of new places and improve existing provision for children and young people:
- with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
- requiring alternative provision
The allocations spreadsheet shows how much funding has been allocated to each local authority. This funding forms part of the £2.6 billion we are investing between 2021 and 2025.
The explanatory note shows how we calculated the funding for each local authority in the latest round of allocations, for 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025.
The guidance explains what local authorities can spend the funding on and the issues they should consider to achieve the best outcomes.
The grant determination documents set out the conditions of the grant for payments in the 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025 financial years.
Additional funding will be used to support high needs capital projects for local authorities with significant dedicated schools grant (DSG) deficits. We’ve contacted these authorities directly.
We also provide capital funding to local authorities to create places for mainstream pupils through basic need allocations.
Updates to this page
Last updated 20 August 2024 + show all updates
-
Updated 'High needs provision capital allocations: 2023 to 2025' with new local authority information and changed its title to 'High needs provision capital allocations: 2021 to 2025'.
-
Added 'High needs provision capital allocations: 2023 to 2025' and 'High needs provision capital allocations: grant determination for 2023 to 2025'. Updated the explanatory note and guidance to reflect new methodology.
-
Updated ‘High needs provision capital allocations for 2022 to 2024’ to reflect early payments made in March 2023 to help manage cash flow due to inflation, and additional funding as part of the safety valve programme. Cumbria has split into 2 new local authorities, Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness. Added ‘High needs provision capital allocations: grant determination for the 2023 to 2024 financial year'. The only changes to this year's document are the dates.
-
Updated the 'High needs provision capital allocations for 2022 to 2024' spreadsheet with new local authority information.
-
High needs provision capital allocations updated for 2022.
-
Updated the 'High needs provision capital allocations for 2021 to 2022' spreadsheet with new local authority information.
-
First published.