SENCo network meeting

February 2013

SEN Services – Bill Turner

SEN Funding

Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG)

Schools Block

Early Years Block

High Needs Block

High Needs BlockReview Principles

• Simplify the approach to the funding of high needs provision

• Establish a greater level of consistency in the funding of high needs pupils

• Establish more direct funding relationships between commissioners and providers – the LA becomes the commissioner for high needs pupils and students up to age 25

• Promote specialist settings to be less reliant on LA managed support mechanisms

• Adopt a model which is more responsive to the actual number of pupils on roll

Proposals have funding implications for the following:

• Special schools• DSPs, ARCs and Resourced Nurseries• PRUs• Primary Behaviour Centres• The District’s wider AP strategy, including the BACs• Post 16 high needs provision in FE settings• Centrally managed high needs provision, including

EY’s, VI and HI, and outreach activities• Education in Hospital provision• Out of authority placements

High needs pupils in mainstream Primary & Secondary provision

• Key proposals already considered as part of the Primary and Secondary consultation which took place earlier this term:– Continue to allocate the vast majority of SEN resources via

the SEN funding formulae – Shift the ‘threshold’ for funding high value statements from

£5,155 to £6,000 to replicate the national formula– Continue to allocate > £6,000 separately, based on the

funding categories framework, adjusted on a monthly basis

– Continue to employ the SEN Funding Floor to ensure a minimum level of SEN formula funding

– Continue to calculate a notional SEN figure & to separately identify all SEN resources within a school’s budget (I03 funding)

Mainstream School SEN funding

Notional 5.5% of school budget

SEN formula

<=£6000

High Needs

Block Plus element

HNB Regulations

• The national “Place Plus” framework is used to calculate budgets

• The value of the “Place” element is set at £10,000 per place for specialist SEN settings and at £8,000 for specialist AP settings, including PRUs

• The “Plus” element is re-determined in year for the real time movement of children

• High needs specialist settings cannot access de-delegated or centrally managed funds as they do now

• A MFG is applied in 2013/14 at -1.5%

High Needs Block

Lump sum per place£10k special - £8k PRU

ORAWPU + SEN formula

~£4000 + £6000

Pupil Need element

Premises element

Place

Plus

3.6.1 Equivalent funding for specialist settings under place-plus

Equivalent Funding

FUNDING CATEGORIES, BANDS & AMOUNTS

Range 1

Range 2

Range 3 Range 4 Range 5 Range 6 Range 7

PRIMARY NEED Delegated Place Funding

Band A (16.5-21.5

hours)

Band B (22-27 hours)

Band C (27.5-34.5

hours)

Band D (35+ hours)      

Additional Funding     £0 £1,000 £3,152 £4,830 £7,524 £10,970 £14,617 £24,018                   

Mainstream Autism & SLCN           SLCN ASD   ASD+ ASD++

Mainstream MLD/SLD/PMLD     MLD   MLD+ SLD PMLD SLD+ PMLD+ PMLD++Mainstream PD             PD   PD+ PD++Mainstream HI/VI           HI/VI   HI+/VI+    

Mainstream BESD             BESD   BESD+ BESD++

Teachers per class of 12 1.85 2.31 3.00 3.00 3.00

LSA's per class of 12 1.85 2.31 3.00 6.00 12.00

Points

Mainstream funding is within colour coded Bands (mainly range 4)

Special School funding is determined by actual Primary Need

The “Place-Plus” Framework 13/14

£ PER PLACE (£10,000 or £8,000)

+

PUPIL NEED BASED PUPIL - LED TOP UP (BANDED)

MINIMUM FUNDING GUARANTEE (MFG)

+

SETTING NEED BASED PUPIL - LED TOP UP

+

+

EFA POST 16 FUNDING (BURSARY)

+

PUPIL PREMIUM = TOTAL FORMULA FUNDING

= PLACE ELEMENT

=

PLUS ELEMENT

(adjusted monthly based on the funding for

pupils on roll on the 15th of each month)

= TOTAL HIGH NEEDS BLOCK FUNDING