Issue - meetings

To consider mainstream cluster funding model for children and young people with additional needs.

Wards Affected: All

Contact: Jo-Anne Sanders, Service Director – Learning and Early Support

Exempt information is detailed in an appendix to the attached report.

Consideration must be given to whether the public and press should be excluded from the meeting prior to the determination of the matter to enable the exempt information to be discussed by passing the following resolution: -

To resolve that under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business, on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act.

RESOLVED –

1)    That the new funding model to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in mainstream schools be approved. 

2)    That it be noted, the new model would devolve high needs funding to schools at a cluster and area level to meet the needs of children at the earliest opportunity and that multiagency support would ensure the right support was offered in the right place at the right time.

3)    That it be noted, the new model would allow clusters and areas to use the funding more flexibly to support children with SEND, no longer tying funding only to those children with an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan.

4)    That authority be delegated to the Service Director for Learning and Early Support to implement the new model from September 2024.