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High Needs Provision Capital Allocation Funding

Meeting: 19/10/2022 - Cabinet (Item 54)

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Cabinet Member for Education (and SEND)

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Minutes:

“We want all children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) 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 nearest suitable place of education.

 

Supporting these projects will allow schools to make extra provision and increase their capacity to provide support where it can make a real difference”.

 

Jonathan Price, Cabinet Member for Education (and SEND)

 

Reasons for the Decision – To consider proposals for the utilisation of High Needs Provision Capital Allocation funding within Staffordshire Educational settings.

 

Decision – (a) That approval be given to the utilisation of the funding within Staffordshire Educational settings to:

 

(i)                Increase access to mainstream placements for children and young people with high needs (who might otherwise require more specialist provision) with the development of resource bases.

(ii)               Increase the local availability of high needs places to help reduce the requirement for out of area placements/placements at independent special schools.

 

(b) That the Director for Children and Families be given delegated authority to allocate the funding to the individual capital projects at educational settings.