Issue - decisions
High Needs Budget 2021/22
31/03/2021 - High Needs Budget 2021/22
That:
- a balanced high needs budget for 2021/22 having regard to the views of Schools Forum be approved as follows;
(a) Complex needs funding £2,285,745;
(b) Independent special schools £1,650,000;
(c) Special school top-up funding £3,549,650;
(d) Special school commissioned places £1,643,000;
(e) Post-16 top-up funding £1,500,000
(f) High needs contingency £0;
(g) Mainstream school top-up funding £2,147,525;
(h) Nurture provision, from September 2021 £116,667;
(i) SEN protection scheme for primary and secondary schools £435,000;
(j) H3 Home, Hospital and Hub £432,500;
(k) Autism and Language units top-up funding £362,432;
(l) Pupil Referral Unit support fund £100,000;
(m) Early years top-up funding £175,000;
(n) Autism and Language Units commissioned places £336,000;
(o) Pupil Referral Service top-up funding 65 pupils at £6,700 for the summer term and 40 pupils at £9,048 for autumn and spring terms i.e. total top-up funding £392,578
(p) Pupil Referral Service commissioned places at 65 summer term and 50 autumn and spring £562,500;
(q) SEN support services
(i) Additional Needs Management £203,750;
(ii) Complex Learning Communications £111,550;
(iii) Equalities team –inclusion £263,937;
(iv) Hearing Impaired Team £407,500;
(v) Managed moves £5,000;
(vi) Business support £73,000;
(vii) DSG Services £125,900;
(r) Charges and income
(i) Excluded pupils (AWPU)/ Hospital -£176,000;
(ii) Local authority recoupment -£200,000;
(iii) Transfer from schools block -£300,000;
(iv) Transfer from Central services block -£75,000.
(s) Teachers Pay and Pension Grant allocations £367,000
(t) Beacon College top-up funding for 13 new pupils £101,400
(u) funding for a maximum 20 places for Beacon College be provided at a cost of £200,000 as agreed with the Department for Education;
(v) and the remaining £70,000 provisionally reserved for Beacon College place funding be allocated for out-county independent special school places
- the school financial contribution to the SEN threshold costs within the SEN protection scheme be limited to £150 x the number on roll as at the October 2020 census for the financial year 2021/22
- The implementation timetable for the new high needs matrix be approved as follows;
• The revised high needs matrix be adopted from April 2021
• All new Education Health Care (EHC) Plans will have funding allocated using the updated tariff levels, including those for children and young people attending specialist settings.
• All children and young people reaching ‘phase transfer’ points of Reception, Year 6 and Year 11 will be moved to the revised HNM with the appropriate tariff levels applied.
• All EHC Plans will be moved to the new funding matrix within five years.
• All non EHC Plan Top up Funding applications will be allocated funding using revised HNM.
- The new tariff values be applied to post-16 contracts for the new academic year with effect from 1st August 2021
- The new tariff values be approved as below from April 2021:
Assessment Points |
Tariff |
Funding as at April 2020 |
Including inflation increase in April 2021 and the 3% uplift recommended by Schools Forum 19 March |
Percentage increase |
|
|
£ |
£ |
% |
0 -9 |
Local Offer |
0 |
0 |
0% |
10-14 |
A1 |
696 |
708 |
1.0% |
15 - 19 |
A2 |
1,392 |
1,404 |
1.0% |
20 - 24 |
B1 |
2,400 |
2,424 |
1.0% |
25 - 29 |
B2 |
3,420 |
3,456 |
1.1% |
30 - 34 |
C1 |
4,020 |
4,056 |
1.0% |
35 - 39 |
C2 |
4,620 |
4,668 |
1.0% |
40 - 44 |
C3 |
5,220 |
5,268 |
1.0% |
45 - 49 |
C4 |
5,820 |
5,988 |
2.9% |
50 - 54 |
D1 |
6,900 |
8,040 |
16.5% |
55 - 59 |
D2 |
7,812 |
9,324 |
19.4% |
60 - 64 |
D3 |
8,724 |
10,608 |
21.6% |
65 - 69 |
D4 |
9,624 |
11,892 |
23.6% |
70 - 74 |
E1 |
10,620 |
13,188 |
24.2% |
74 - 79 |
E2 |
11,616 |
14,472 |
24.6% |
80 - 84 |
E3 |
12,600 |
15,756 |
25.0% |
85 - 89 |
E4 |
13,596 |
17,052 |
25.4% |
90 - 94 |
F1 |
14,724 |
18,336 |
24.5% |
95 - 99 |
F2 |
15,864 |
19,620 |
23.7% |
100 - 104 |
F3 |
16,992 |
20,904 |
23.0% |
105 - 109 |
F4 |
18,120 |
22,200 |
22.5% |
- As presented to the Schools Forum on 19th March, the funding originally identified to provide for the Minimum Funding Guarantee for special schools (£100k) and to smooth the introduction of the new tariff funding proposals (£52k) is better allocated as follows;
a) to avoid the minimum funding guarantee for special schools by adding 3% on the tariffs D-F as included in recommendation 5 above at a cost of £80,000;
b) that additional funding of £11,000 be allocated for PRU top-ups to ensure that the PRU is fully funded for top-up D2 at £9,324 per pupil;
c) That the new tariff C4 be confirmed at £ 5,988 which includes an additional £108 at a cost of £11,000 to reduce the funding differential between tariff C4 and tariff D1;
d) that the remaining £50,000 of funding be added to the out county special school.