The government is “actively looking” at reforming the £10,000 place funding special schools receive for each child, which hasn’t risen once since being introduced 10 years ago.
Tom Goldman, deputy director at the Department for Education funding policy unit, told the National Network of Special Schools conference today that funding should “probably” change over time.
Special schools receive £10,000 for each commissioned place and then top-up funding from their council, based on the child’s needs.
Special school business leaders told Goldman and David Withey, chief executive at the Education and Skills Funding Agency, their budgets were stretched or in deficit.
