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Autumn Budget 2024: Rachel Reeves boosts SEND funding by £1bn

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has pledged a funding uplift of £1bn for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) services as part of her Autumn Budget.
Rachel Reeves used her budget to pledge to 'give children and young people the opportunities they deserve'
Rachel Reeves used her budget to pledge to 'give children and young people the opportunities they deserve' - Treasury

“This government is committed to improving SEND provision,” Reeves told the House of Commons.

The funding will be released to councils by the Department for Education “from this year”, she added.

Documents released by the Treasury state that the funding, which will also be used to improve alternative education for provision (AP) for children not in mainstream school, will be "an important step in realising the government’s ambition to reform the system".

This suggests it will push forwards proposals made in the previous government's SEND and AP Improvement Plan, published in March last year.

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