Budgeted Expenditure on Special Educational Needs (SEN) Provision, 2010-11

Statistics on budgeted expenditure on Special Educational Needs (SEN) Provision include data for Wales as reported by Welsh Local Education Authorities for 2010-11.  

The key points from the latest release are:

• Total expenditure on SEN provision is budgeted to be £342 million.
• Isle of Anglesey has the largest SEN budget per pupil at £990, whilst the Vale of Glamorgan has the smallest SEN budget per pupil at £561.
• Delegated expenditure to special schools accounts for 21% of the total budgeted SEN expenditure.  Notional allocations within nursery, primary, and secondary schools account for a further 34% of the total. The remaining 45% is made up of money held centrally by LAs.
• Denbighshire delegates the largest proportion of SEN budgets to schools at 77%, whilst Isle of Anglesey delegates the smallest at 18%.
• Total SEN expenditure per pupil for Wales is budgeted to be £754. This is made up of delegated expenditure at £415 per pupil and non-delegated expenditure at £339 per pupil.

Further information

StatsWales website

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3519
E-mail: stats.finance@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

June 2011 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)