School Funding Reforms

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School Funding Reforms

• Notional SEN Elements 1, 2 and 3

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Introduction

• DSG funding reforms introduced the concept of
  notional SEN in 2013-14
• This is the idea that within school budgets was
  an allocation for dealing with expensive
  children, with higher needs than a child without
  SEN.

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Introduction

• Manchester has always included and expected its
  schools to fund these children from within the
  delegated budget share up to a maximum of
  10,000.
• This is because, although the Schools Block
  funding is allocated on an equal basis per pupil,
  the costs incurred by schools are not linear and
  there is an expectation that the less expensive
  children will contribute towards the more
  expensive children.

Introduction
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Changes

• Under the 2013-14 funding reforms the idea of
  notional SEN continues in Manchester, but is
  refined. Now schools are expected to contribute
  up to the basic entitlement 6,000 per SEN
  child from their budget share.
• This is also know as element 1 (core education
  funding) and element 2 (additional support
  funding)
• Anything above this threshold is called element 3
  top up funding. Top up funding is also known
  as individually assigned resources (IAR) and is
  for statemented or resource agreement children

Changes
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Notional SEN per pupil
Notional SEN per pupil What is the notional SEN?
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Notional SEN per pupil

• The expected maximum school contribution to each
  child is set out below.

Pupil age Element 1 core education funding (AWPU) Element 2 additional support funding Total school contribution per pupil (the notional SEN to be found, per high needs child)
Primary 3,101 6,000 9,101
KS3 4,111 6,000 10,111
KS4 4,476 6,000 10,476
Notional SEN per pupil What is the notional SEN?
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School Budget Shares

• Reception Y11 pupils are funded based on the
  October census and are funded through the schools
  block
• Nurseries are funded based on numbers returned on
  each termly census

School Budget Shares How schools are funded
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School Budget Shares
This is the AWPU element 1
School Budget Shares Where is my notional SEN?
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School Budget Shares
Element 2 is contained within this total budget
share
Element 3 comes through the High Needs Block -
here
School Budget Shares Where is my notional SEN?
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School Budget Shares

• Notional SEN is paid with the school budget share
  13 payments from April to March, all
  approximately 7 of the total annual allocation
• High needs (IAR) budgets are set at the start of
  the financial year and adjusted quarterly based
  on actual pupil intake and statemented need

School Budget Shares When do I get my notional
SEN?
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Central High Needs Budgets

• 61 million total High Needs Block
• 41 million delegated to special schools, special
  academies, named pupils and in year adjustments
• 12.5 million centrally retained, of which 6.6m
  is to pay for out of authority SEN children
• Others including SEN transport, support for
  inclusion, independent special schools fees

Central High Needs Budgets
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Challenges in Manchesters DSG

• Same pot of money as last year, but more children
  with statements and more expensive statements
• Special schools have increased in size no more
  money to fund this
• Post-16 SEN funding has been based on 2011-12
  data, Manchesters population, costs and children
  with SEN has increased dramatically since then
  estimated 2m shortfall in funding

Challenges in DSG
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Statements and Resource Agreements - Trends
Statements - Trends
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