Operational guide
Read the operational guide to find out how the high needs
funding streams work for all types of provision.
Use the operational guide to help plan your 2020 to 2021
financial year high needs funding.
Special free schools adjustments: a guide for local
authorities
Use the special free schools guide to find out how place
funding for these schools will be managed from 2020 to
2021.
The guide explains how these schools will be included in
the place change notification process and high needs
national funding formula, and what local authorities should
consider for 2020 to 2021.
Place change notification process
View the high needs place change request outcomes: 2020 to
2021 to find information on all institutions for which
local authorities submitted a return to change high needs
place numbers.
Read the technical note to find out how the outcomes have
been determined.
Review the published outcomes as soon as possible, to
ensure the numbers reflect those expected.
If an institution is not listed in the workbook then this
means that no local authority change request was submitted
for that institution and the published 2019 to 2020 place
numbers will be used as the basis of the 2020 to
2021 allocation.
How to query your place numbers
The enquiry window, where local authorities and
institutions could query their place numbers, closed on 7
February 2020.
Hospital education funding: guidance
Read the hospital education funding guidance to find out
how local authorities can apply for changes to their
hospital education funding for 2020 to 2021.
High needs student and pupil numbers recorded in the ILR and
school census: 2018 to 2019
Use the high needs student and pupil numbers recorded in
the ILR and school census: 2018 to 2019 to inform local
discussion about commissioning arrangements for 2020 to
2021.
The high needs student and pupil numbers recorded in the
ILR and school census: 2018 to 2019 file shows the:
- actual number of high needs students at institutions
recorded in the academic year 2018 to 2019 ILR R14 data
return
- actual number of pupils in special academies and
special free schools recorded in the spring 2019 school
census
- allocated number of high needs places for academic
years 2018 to 2019 and 2019 to 2020
- actual data for special post-16 institutions (this data
is provided for information purposes only and is included
because SPIs return 2018 to 2019 R14 data to ESFA)
Read the schools operational
guide: 2020 to 2021 to help plan the local
implementation of the funding system for the 2020 to 2021
financial year.
Read the high needs funding
2019 to 2020: operational guide for information
about the 2019 to 2020 financial year funding arrangements.
You can read the national funding
formula for schools and high needs for further
details of the NFF funding system for 2020 to 2021.
View the provisional national
funding formula allocation tables for schools,
high needs and central schools services blocks for 2020 to
2021.
