Purpose

Implementation of a new
High
Needs funding model within mainstream
schools.
 
Background Papers:
 
27 February 2021
Kirklees Council Cabinet Report - Proposed changes to top-up
funding allocations for children in mainstream schools with an
EHCP.

Cabinet Paper
 
March 2024 Kirklees Safety
Valve Agreement

Dedicated Schools Grant ‘Safety Valve’
Agreement: Kirklees
 
SEND The Big Plan

https://www.kirkleeslocaloffer.org.uk/media/sdgdbonx/final-the-big-plan-refresh-of-send-strategy-oct23.pdf
 
 
Engagement Process:
 
Strategic Managers have engaged
via Schools Forum, Primary, Secondary and Special School Heads
meetings and SENDCo Net.
 
Task and Finish Group with Head
Teachers, SENDCos, PCAN and LA officers, the group have met five
times between 24 October 2023 and 1 March 2024.
 
Information and Engagement
Sessions with schools on the 11 March 2024 and 20 March
2024.
 
Consultation:
 
Interviews took place with
Local Authority staff, schools, early years providers, health,
KIASS, PCAN and parents and carers in June and July
2023.
 
The findings of the
mainstream high needs funding
review
were presented back to Head Teachers,
SENDCos, Governors, PCAN and KIASS, Local Authority officers and
councillors in September and October 2023.

Content

RESOLVED
–
 
1)   
That the new funding model to support children with
special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in mainstream
schools be approved. 
2)   
That it be noted, the new model would devolve high
needs funding to schools at a cluster and area level to meet the
needs of children at the earliest opportunity and that multiagency
support would ensure the right support was offered in the right
place at the right time.
3)   
That it be noted, the new model would allow clusters
and areas to use the funding more flexibly to support children with
SEND, no longer tying funding only to those children with an
Education Health and Care (EHC) plan.
4)   
That authority be delegated to the Service Director
for Learning and Early Support to implement the new model from
September 2024.