Decision details
High Needs Provision Capital Allocation Funding
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
Staffordshire County Council has been
allocated £2,441,299.98 High Needs Provision Capital
Allocations (HNPCA) funding. SCC have consulted on proposals to use
the funding to: • Develop Resource Bases at Mainstream Schools
for children EHCPs and SEN Support with Social, Emotional and
Mental Health Needs and/or Autistic Spectrum Condition •
Partnership working and co-location of specialist provision on
mainstream sites • Increase capacity in specialist provision
to reduce the need to access placements at Independent schools/out
of county provision.
Decisions:
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“We want all children with special educational needs and disabilities to be able to reach their potential by receiving the right support at the right time in their own communities, at their local school or place of education. This funding allows us to support bids which will enable pupils to be integrated and educated more inclusively closer to home”.
Jonatan Price, Cabinet Member for Education (and SEND) |
Reasons for the Decision – To consider proposals for the use of the High Needs Provision Capital Allocations (HNPCA) funding.
Decision –That the proposals to use the High Needs Provision Capital Allocations (HNPCA) funding, as outlined below, be supported:
(i) To develop Resource Bases at Mainstream Schools for children with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP) or SEN Support with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs and/or Autistic Spectrum Condition.
(ii) A partnership approach with co-location of specialist provision on mainstream sites.
(iii) Increasing capacity in specialist provision to reduce the need to access placements at independent schools/out of county provision.
Report author: Carolyn Knight
Publication date: 16/09/2021
Date of decision: 15/09/2021
Decided at meeting: 15/09/2021 - Cabinet
Effective from: 22/09/2021
Accompanying Documents:
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