1. Brian Gale Director Policy & Campaigns
Green paper implications for funding of children with sensory impairment
Brian Gale
Director Policy & Campaigns

2. Dedicated Schools Grant
Sensory Support
Other Service
School
Individual Schools Budget
Centrally Funded Services

3. Individual Schools Budget
Centrally Funded Services
Individual Schools Budget
Sensory Support
Other Service
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4. Individual Schools Budget
Centrally Funded Services
Sensory Support
Other Service
School

5. LACSEG Section 251 Relevant
1.2.1 Provision for pupils with SEN (individually assigned resources) No
1.2.2 SEN other
Yes
1.2.3 Support inclusion
1.3.2 PRU
1.3.3 Education out of school
1.3.5 Under 5s

6. EY
Primary
Secondary
Special
Post 16
1.2.1
1.2.2
1.2.3
1.3.2
1.3.5

7. New structure National Funding Formula Low cost SEN (Core offer)
High cost SEN (LA commissioning)
Integration of post 16 funding
Personalised budgets
New providers

8. National Funding Formula
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Winston Churchill

9. Issues Low cost / high cost thresholds How to distribute
Local discretion v national consistency
Incentive to over identify
Resource banding

10. More Issues Personalised budget Funding of support services
Regional collaboration
Special school academies and free schools / new providers

11. Yet more issues
Winners, losers and turbulence
Competition – social enterprises

12. Managing Risk Cost control Careful section 251 preparation
Marketing: Benefits and outcomes
Statutory necessity
Quality standards (accreditation)

13. Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity (R I Fitzhenry)
Risks varies inversely with knowledge. Risks comes from not knowing what you are doing (W Buffet)
I don’t think about risk much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go you gotta go (L Carter)