Finance

The budget allocation is agreed between our school and the Local Authority at the beginning of each financial year. Detail of how this money is used to support children and young people with SEND is shown below. This is monitored each term by the Governing Body and Finance Committee as part of their global monitoring of the budget.

Legislation places a requirement on Local Authorities to publish a SEND Local Offer, which will set out a range of additional services and provision across education, health, social care and across the public, voluntary and independent sectors. This will detail information about what is available to support families both with and without an EHC Plan. The SENDCO of Broom Cottages Primary and Nursery School is Mrs Hicks and she will help parents of pupils with SEN to identify appropriate provision that may be available through the Local Offer. School may also signpost parents to other professionals and groups who may offer specific advice, guidance and support, where required.

2016 - 2017

At Broom Cottages Primary and Nursery School our notional SEN budget amounted to £130,931.31 for the 2016 - 2017 financial year. This was made up of the ‘notional SEND funding’ which is based on the number of pupils on roll, deprivation funding and prior attainment information and ‘top up funding’ for a pupil in school with an Education Health Care Plan. For this pupil the school pays the first £6000 of any provision and the top up funding comes from the LA following submission of a costed provision map.

An example of a costed provision map can be seen here.

This was/is used to support children and young people with SEND by:

School Budget

This is used to support children and young people with SEND by:

• Changing the way activities are planned and delivered
• Matching activities to the ability/need of each child (differentiation)
• Adapting learning materials such as equipment and activities to suit each child’s needs
• Offer small group support to promote skills identified in the child’s Education Plan
• Broom Cottages Primary and Nursery School uses this money to fund the following:
• Employ additional staff to promote inclusion through specific group/paired/individual provisions
• Employ and train a Special Educational Needs Coordinator to liaise with parents, other professionals and outside agencies to meet the needs of our pupils
• Facilitate management release time for a period of two hours every day as a minimum for our SENCO to work with external professionals to support wider professional development in relation to SEN-e.g. in writing/reviewing quality SEN support plans, advising staff how to meet individual needs etc.
• Allow teaching and support staff to attend professional training and meetings to ensure that they have the appropriate skills, knowledge and understanding to meet the needs of pupils with specific needs. Supply cover may be required to pay for additional staff
• Meet costs that are often involved in purchasing appropriate training for staff, this has included training for play therapy and speech and language
• Ensure opportunities for staff, parents, pupils and other agencies to liaise regularly are facilitated
• Buy into specialist services to work with children/and or staff to identify/meet needs or support school in meeting needs e.g. Staff training-Speech and Language, play therapy, counselling, Cognition and Learning Team and Educational Psychology Service etc.
• Provide specific teaching and learning resources required by individual programmes, or those resources which have the potential to facilitate access for all ensuring equality of opportunity by removing barriers or compensating for any disabling factor which might prevent a child from having the same access to provision as his/her peers
• Permanent and Temporary TA’s and an apprentice working across EYFS, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, to support children identified with a special educational need and those with an EHCP.
• Extra TA support for interventions taking place beyond the classroom e.g. Motor Skills Groups, personal / Social development, in school counselling
• Provision of a lunchtime club for those pupils who find it hard to socialise in a large group without intervention and strategies
• Additional Literacy and Numeracy support.
• Purchase of equipment and resources to support pupils with SEN comes from the SEN allocation. Partner agencies making recommendations for support and equipment, advise which resources are required and these are provided by school to reduce barriers to learning. For example, iPad, Apps, sloping boards, coloured overlays, Lexia (literacy intervention) etc.

COL Budget

The Community of Learning (COL7) to which Broom Cottages belongs, receives additional funding to meet the shared needs and priorities of partner schools. This funding has been used to support training for staff including Speech and Language/ Speech Link, transition and Clicker 7 software. It has also been used to address Speech Therapy waiting lists by providing speech and language therapists in schools.

Local Authority Budget

The LA currently allocates top up funding for pupils with complex needs. This money is allocated to individual support of pupils. The school is in a period of transition as the new EHC Plans are rolled out. Costed Provision Maps detailing the cost of interventions and support for individual pupils are produced to ensure the cost of provision, over and above the £6000 school contribution is provided in the future.

If a child has complex special educational needs, we could also receive additional funding from the Local Authority to meet the agreed outcomes. If you would like to discuss your SEND requirements in detail please contact the school to arrange an appointment.

With the permission of parents we may seek additional advice from outside specialists such as health professionals, specialist teachers or educational psychologists who would:

• Carry out further assessment of the child’s needs
• Provide advice to schools on how to best support the child
• Suggest resources that would the child make progress

Our teachers/teaching assistants work in partnership with parents/carers and the SENCO to find ways to support each child with their needs, including giving parents ideas on how to help their child at home.

2017 - 2018

At Broom Cottages Primary and Nursery School our notional SEN budget for the 2017 - 2018 financial year is £149,603.31.

This was made up of the ‘notional SEND funding’ which is based on the number of pupils on roll, deprivation funding and prior attainment information and ‘top up funding’ of £16,614 for pupils in school with an Education Health Care Plan. For these pupils the school pays the first £6000 of any provision and the top up funding comes from the LA following submission of a costed provision map.

Expenditure for this financial year mirrors the information above.