Funding for school places

Basic need funding, 16 to 19 demographic growth capital fund forms.

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Guidance and regulation

• Basic need allocations
  • Guidance
  • 27 April 2026
  • Department for Education
• Delivering schools to support housing growth
  • Guidance
  • 9 August 2023
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Department for Education, and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Afghanistan resettlement education grant
  • Guidance
  • 29 March 2023
  • Department for Education

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News and communications

• £3bn investment to end postcode lottery for children with SEND
  • 11 December 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• Schools and colleges to receive £2.5 billion to upgrade buildings and boost school places
  • 28 March 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• Government ensures housing development helps foot the bill for school places
  • 11 April 2019
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• Improved access to thousands more world class school places
  • 11 February 2019
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• Multi-million pound investment in state of the art facilities for children with special educational needs
  • 29 May 2018
  • Department for Education
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Local authority school places scorecards 2024
  • 26 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Official statistics
• Local authority school places scorecards 2023
  • 27 June 2024
  • Department for Education
  • Official statistics
• Local authority school places scorecards 2022
  • 29 June 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Official statistics

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Afghanistan resettlement education grant allocations
  • 29 March 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Local Authority School Places Scorecards 2016
  • 3 April 2017
  • Education Funding Agency and Education and Skills Funding Agency
  • Transparency
• 16 to 19 Demographic Growth Capital Fund: allocation data
  • 29 May 2014
  • Education Funding Agency
  • Transparency
• Unfilled academy places in England funded by the Department for Education since 2010
  • 24 September 2013
  • Department for Education
  • Foi release

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Organisations

• Department
  for Education
• Ministry of Housing,
  Communities &
  Local Government
• Prime Minister's Office
  10 Downing Street