Question follow-through · 12792
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that local authorities operate a clear system for accessing high needs top up funding, in the context of her Department's High Needs operational guidance.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that local authorities operate a clear system for accessing high needs top up funding, in the context of her Department's High Needs operational guidance.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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3 Jul 2026
Answer published
Local authorities have flexibility to determine how to allocate high needs funding, including top up funding, in line with their statutory duties under the Children and Families Act 2014. In doing so, they must take account of the costs that would reasona...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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