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Special Educational Needs: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional support, will be provided to West Midlands councils in 2025-26, 2026-27 and 2027-28 to manage growing SEND costs.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
2 Dec 2025
Target answer date
4 Dec 2025
Answer
17 Mar 2026 · 105 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional support, will be provided to West Midlands councils in 2025-26, 2026-27 and 2027-28 to manage growing SEND costs.

  2. 4 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    The government has announced plans to address deficits through making available the High Needs Stability Grant, which will cover 90% of all local authorities‘ high needs dedicated schools grant (DSG) deficits accumulated to the end of the 2025/26 financia...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Construction: Further Education

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Further Education: Finance

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