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 funding arrangements: 2025 to 2026
- Guidance
- 28 May 2025
- Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
High needs provision capital allocations
- Guidance
- 27 March 2025
- 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