Budgeted Expenditure on Special Educational Needs (SEN) Provision, 2012-13

Statistics on budgeted expenditure on Special Educational Needs (SEN) Provision include data for Wales as reported by Welsh Local Authorities for 2012-13.

The key points from the latest release are:

• Total expenditure on SEN provision is budgeted to be £347 million, a slight decrease of £0.2 million  compared with the previous year.
• Denbighshire delegates the largest proportion of their SEN budget to their schools at 83%, whilst Caerphilly delegates the smallest proportion at 50%.
• Delegated expenditure to special schools accounts for 24% of the total budgeted SEN expenditure.  Notional allocations within nursery, primary and secondary schools account for a further 43% of the total.  The remaining 33% is made up of money held centrally by local authorities.
• Blaenau Gwent has the largest SEN budget per pupil at £963, whilst Torfaen has the smallest SEN budget per pupil at £540.
• Total SEN expenditure per pupil for Wales is budgeted to be £769.  This is made up of delegated expenditure at £516 per pupil and non-delegated expenditure at £253 per pupil.

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

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

Next update

June 2013 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)