Council says SEND system is 'unsustainable' and requires 'immediate reforms'

SEND: Oxfordshire County Council says funding 'unsustainable'

Oxfordshire County Council says it will have a £100m black hole in its SEND budget by next year.

Council says SEND system is 'unsustainable' and requires 'immediate reforms'

The national support system for children and young people with SEND is "unsustainable," Oxfordshire County Council has said.

Multi-billion pound SEND funding crisis leaves councils on edge of ...

SEND: Government extends councils’ statutory override

The government has announced that it will extend the statutory override to keep councils' SEND spending deficits off their books for another two years

SEND deficits: government avoids ‘financial cliff edge’ for councils but a comprehensive solution is now critical - County Councils Network

Today the government has confirmed that the mechanism to keep special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) services deficits off councils’ budgets will be extended alongside a commitment to support local authorities with their spiralling debts. Since 2019, councils have been able to keep mounting high needs deficits off their main revenue accounts using a method called the statutory override, meaning that local authorities do not have to ad…

BREAKING: Send deficit override extended

The accountancy loophole preventing local authorities from declaring effective bankruptcy due to special educational needs deficits will continue for two more years, the government is set to announce today. The extension of the dedicated schools grant statutory override, which was due to end next year,…The post BREAKING: Send deficit override extended appeared first on Local Government Chronicle (LGC).