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
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