Guidance and regulation

Information for local authorities, schools and colleges about high needs funding arrangements for the 2024 to 2025 financial and academic year.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 25 March 2024

• High needs funding: 2024 to 2025 operational guide

  1. Summary This guide describes how the 2024 to 2025 financial and…

• Special free schools adjustment: a guide for local authorities

  1. Introduction This guide is for local authorities who have special free…

• High needs place change process: 2024 to 2025 academic year

  1. About this guidance This guide is primarily for local authorities,…

• How to complete the high needs place change workbook for 2024 to 2025

  1. About this guidance This guide explains how the workbook should be…

• Hospital education funding: guidance for 2024 to 2025

  1. Introduction Local authorities can apply for changes to their hospital…

• High needs place process: alternative provision (AP) free school guidance for 2024 to 2025

  Introduction This guidance is for alternative provision (AP) free schools…

Local authority funding to support the provision of new places and improve existing provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities or requiring alternative provision.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 26 March 2024

A comparative tool to help local authorities plan for future high needs spend and provision.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 26 October 2023

Information setting out the process that may lead to a grant funding arrangement with the Education and Skills Funding Agency for the delivery of education provision for high needs students.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 10 October 2023

Tables showing provisional allocations for the schools, high needs and central school services blocks from 2021 to 2022.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 10 August 2020

Tables showing provisional allocations for the schools, high needs and central school services blocks in 2018 to 2019.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 21 December 2018

Tables showing provisional allocations for the schools, high needs and central school services blocks from 2020 to 2021.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 9 March 2020