Up to £20 million from a £300 million capital fund to provide more school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) will be targeted at councils that have agreed to cost-cutting measures in exchange for deficit bailouts. The Department for Education has today re-announced a capital funding injection announced at last year’s spending review, and said that £280 million will be allocated to councils based on estimates for growth in the high needs pupil population. The remaining £20 million will be used to support the government’s “safety valve” intervention programme, which provides strings-attached bailouts to councils with large school budget deficits, providing they agree to make savings, including in their SEND spending. The DfE said today that the capital funding could be used to create new places in schools, academies, colleges and early years settings for pupils with SEND or who require alternative provision. This could be done by improving existing provision to create “modern, fit-for-purpose spaces suited to a wider range of pupil needs”, the DfE said. Or alternatively it could be used to contribute to the cost of creating a whole new special school, or “by improving accessibility, such as installing ramps, handrails or ceiling hoists”. SEND capital cash based on growth estimates Councils will receive their share of the £280 million based on their “estimated share of future growth in the high needs pupil population”, with a “minimum funding floor” to ensure every LA gets at least £500,000. The estimates will be reached using Office for National Statistics population projections and data on education, health and care plans (EHCPs). The DfE will also take into account data on “funding already being provided in the form of new special and alternative provision free schools”, it said. The government has then said that “up to” £20 million will be used to support high needs capital projects in “a small number of the local authorities facing the highest dedicated schools grant deficits”. Vicky Ford MP Schools Week reported last month that five councils had been told to cut SEND spending and reform services in exchange for government bailouts totalling almost £100 million to fill black holes in their budgets. Similar agreements are expected to be reached with other local authorities with high deficits as part of the new programme. Children’s minister Vicky Ford said the additional capital investment would “enable local authorities to invest more in creating excellent school places or enhancing existing provision so that pupils with additional needs and disabilities get the same opportunities as any other”. How much each council will get The DfE has published a breakdown of the £280 million and how much each council will receive. This does not include any future allocations from the £20 million for “safety valve” councils. ENGLAND £280,000,000 NORTH EAST £11,670,730 Darlington £500,000 Durham £2,354,865 Gateshead £1,343,333 Hartlepool £500,000 Middlesbrough £1,159,882 Newcastle upon Tyne £1,461,608 North Tyneside £663,432 Northumberland £851,302 Redcar and Cleveland £807,275 South Tyneside £632,130 Stockton-on-Tees £876,119 Sunderland £520,783 NORTH WEST £30,867,776 Blackburn with Darwen £500,000 Blackpool £500,000 Bolton £1,327,441 Bury £590,433 Cheshire East £1,263,815 Cheshire West and Chester £1,079,141 Cumbria £753,287 Halton £500,000 Knowsley £509,167 Lancashire £4,724,150 Liverpool £3,460,315 Manchester £2,323,800 Oldham £830,009 Rochdale £1,156,819 Salford £2,467,911 Sefton £675,524 St Helens £649,444 Stockport £1,274,115 Tameside £1,223,336 Trafford £1,676,744 Warrington £710,210 Wigan £1,625,570 Wirral £1,046,546 YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER £21,076,263 Barnsley £1,460,729 Bradford £2,144,168 Calderdale £551,746 Doncaster £1,064,927 East Riding of Yorkshire £746,801 Kingston Upon Hull, City of £1,488,667 Kirklees £1,609,972 Leeds £4,574,288 North East Lincolnshire £883,216 North Lincolnshire £729,278 North Yorkshire £716,840 Rotherham £1,059,890 Sheffield £1,944,426 Wakefield £1,473,876 York £627,439 EAST MIDLANDS £23,882,050 Derby £1,565,260 Derbyshire £2,489,980 Leicester £2,013,816 Leicestershire £3,641,555 Lincolnshire £2,986,063 Northamptonshire £2,818,740 Nottingham £2,550,245 Nottinghamshire £5,316,391 Rutland £500,000 WEST MIDLANDS £28,409,065 Birmingham £6,500,324 Coventry £2,426,212 Dudley £1,416,043 Herefordshire £648,122 Sandwell £1,488,855 Shropshire £500,000 Solihull £1,055,762 Staffordshire £2,441,300 Stoke-on-Trent £2,668,316 Telford and Wrekin £1,303,858 Walsall £1,419,382 Warwickshire £2,747,760 Wolverhampton £2,254,087 Worcestershire £1,539,044 EAST OF ENGLAND £26,434,224 Bedford Borough £517,418 Central Bedfordshire £1,940,604 Cambridgeshire £2,709,339 Essex £5,238,295 Hertfordshire £4,761,203 Luton £1,243,963 Norfolk £4,393,597 Peterborough £1,777,784 Southend-on-Sea £1,061,570 Suffolk £2,111,925 Thurrock £678,526 LONDON £67,164,383 INNER LONDON £29,260,922 City of London (chose not to receive allocation) £0 Camden £2,659,040 Hackney £2,724,671 Hammersmith and Fulham £1,109,016 Haringey £1,023,938 Islington £1,834,419 Kensington and Chelsea £2,383,501 Lambeth £2,541,861 Lewisham £2,550,163 Newham £2,611,716 Southwark £1,306,336 Tower Hamlets £2,638,807 Wandsworth £4,837,414 Westminster £1,040,039 OUTER LONDON £37,903,461 Barking and Dagenham £2,159,813 Barnet £2,928,937 Bexley £956,587 Brent £1,923,257 Bromley £2,450,780 Croydon £1,583,319 Ealing £2,298,820 Enfield £1,317,956 Greenwich £2,784,607 Harrow £821,790 Havering £2,206,149 Hillingdon £2,872,216 Hounslow £2,419,089 Kingston upon Thames £1,498,043 Merton £2,192,305 Redbridge £1,847,656 Richmond upon Thames £2,282,870 Sutton £1,924,542 Waltham Forest £1,434,725 SOUTH EAST £48,310,113 Bracknell Forest £500,000 Brighton and Hove £1,029,705 Buckinghamshire £3,555,125 East Sussex £1,273,987 Hampshire £6,789,279 Isle of Wight £500,000 Kent £6,638,937 Medway £1,939,762 Milton Keynes £2,971,552 Oxfordshire £3,520,938 Portsmouth £1,181,281 Reading £954,776 Slough £2,065,766 Southampton £2,106,601 Surrey £6,920,304 West Berkshire £500,000 West Sussex £4,095,781 Windsor and Maidenhead £500,000 Wokingham £1,266,317 SOUTH WEST £22,185,395 Bath and North East Somerset £726,955 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole £2,365,962 Bristol, City of £1,840,832 Cornwall £2,442,129 Devon £2,145,041 Dorset £500,000 Gloucestershire £1,988,465 Isles of Scilly £500,000 North Somerset £1,152,776 Plymouth £1,447,787 Somerset £983,283 South Gloucestershire £1,908,231 Swindon £1,598,452 Torbay £530,150 Wiltshire £2,055,333