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Special Educational Needs: Cambridgeshire

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Question for Department for Education

UIN 52036, tabled on 13 May 2025

Question

Ben Obese-Jecty
Conservative
Huntingdon
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have been granted (a) 25%, (b) 50%, (c) 75% and (d) 100% Special Educational Needs Inclusion Funding in each constituency in Cambridgeshire in each of the last five academic years.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
Labour
Newcastle upon Tyne North
Commons

Answered on

16 May 2025

All local authorities are required to have a Special Educational Need Inclusion Fund (SENIF) for all eligible children for the entitlements and who have special educational needs.

Local authorities should establish their SENIFs using funding from the early years block and/or the high needs block of their Dedicated Schools Grant, considering pressures on high needs and early years budgets locally.

The department gives local authorities the autonomy to set SENIF budgets and to decide on eligibility criteria locally, as they are best placed to meet local need.

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