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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what funding has been received by Sefton metropolitan borough council to support educational services for children and people with learning difficulties, disabilities and other special educational needs in the current financial year. [116279] Mr. Miliband: The calculation of Sefton MBC's Education Formula Spending Share (FSS) takes account of the estimated number of children between the ages of 3 and 16 with high levels of educational need. Sefton's overall FSS determines the general funding received through the authority through Revenue Support Grant. The authority decides how much of this funding is used to support spending on educational services for children and people with learning difficulties, disabilities and other special educational needs--it is not possible to identify a separate funding allocation for these services. The authority also receives funding from the Learning and Skills Council for students over the age of 16 with special educational needs. In 2003-04 this totalled £890,508. There is also support for children and people with learning difficulties through the Standards Fund: the authority's grant for SEN for 2003-04 is £519,437. There is capital funding available: the authority's School Access Initiative, to help make schools more accessible for children with disabilities, is worth £650,000 in Basic Credit Approvals for 2003-04.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

116279; 406 c607-8W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Finance Education Learning disability Special educational needs Sefton Sefton Council

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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