Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services.

The report provides Schools Forum members with information relating to the joint LA/Schools Forum response submitted to the consultation launched by the DfE around SEN funding provided to local authorities via the notional high needs block and the factors and issues to be considered before creating a new national funding method to allocate such funds.

Schools Forum members are asked to note the report.

Officer contact: Peter Hughes on 0161 474 3947 or email peter.hughes@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) outlining information relating to the joint LA/Schools Forum response submitted to the consultation launched by the DfE around Special Educational Needs funding provided to local authorities via the notional high needs block and the factors and issues to be considered before creating a new national funding method to allocate such funds.

A meeting was held on 10 February 2015 of LA officers, representatives from the Schools Forum and the 0-25 Implementation Board to discuss and consider issues, views and matters to be collated and included in a joint response. A draft response was presented to the Corporate Director for Services to People and his senior management team and the final approved response was submitted to the DfE ahead of the deadline date (i.e. 27 February 2015).

It was reported that a number of private children’s homes were homing out of borough children and the funding to address this did not flow in real time and that this could be included in the response to future consultation.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.