From Department for Education and Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, published 4 December 2024
Thousands of pupils are to benefit from a £740 million cash injection from the Government to pave the way for more pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to achieve and thrive in mainstream schools.
This new funding can be used to adapt classrooms to be more accessible for children with SEND, and to create specialist facilities within mainstream schools that can deliver more intensive support adapted to suit the pupils’ needs.
It will start to pave the way for the government’s wide-ranging long-term plans for reform to help more pupils with SEND to have their needs met in mainstream schools.
Full details can be found: Press release from GOV.UK
Our Education Commissioning Director, Jane Hargreaves said,
‘’ I am incredibly pleased that our Secretary of State chose to announce the above news during a visit to Becontree Primary school while sitting in their beautiful ARP. She chose to visit because of the depth of experience in the creation and development of ARPs in schools right across the borough.
It is very encouraging to see the direction of Government policy and commitment to inclusion is so in tune with the principles and approaches schools and the LA together have been developing over the years.’’