A charity is calling for immediate action on the current system of funding for children with SEND, who, due to ‘unnecessarily complex application processes’, are being turned away by early years settings.
Within its Early Years Funding Manifesto, Dingley’s Promise recommends the way funding is accessed by early years settings to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) be simplified.
It says currently the availability of early years places for children with SEND are ‘scandalously low’, with many settings having to fund support out of their own pocket.
The charity wants the link removed between Disability Access Funding (DAF) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to make funding more accessible to settings.
