Anyone in Norfolk? What's with these Newsletters home about funding changes?

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Some kind of re-organisation going on at county level. I read the newsletters they send home but I can't figure out what they mean. It seems like basically they are slashing funding: kids at mainstream schools who need more than 20 hrs/week 1:1 time (a minority, I'm sure) will get no allocated funding, but kids who need more than 20 hours will get it all funded.

Only, there's no changes at all to the funding unless the child changes school (so an admin nightmare to boot).

Here's a link, see if anyone can read & understand it better than I do.

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it was voted for by the Norfolk heads apparently. A reallocation of the way funding works. I didn't really understand why they chose that option.

The children have to be assessed as needing 20+ hours per week of extra support to be funded for it now.

I think it applies to all children - even those already receiving support - so if they were assessed as 15 hours then that is no longer funded.

The schools are still expected to fund support for anything less than the 20 hours - they get some sort of budget for that but I can't remember how it is allocated.

This explains things a bit better - see Section 2.5 onwards. It's an ongoing consultation - we (Heads and Govs) are feeding back at the moment.

I'd be speaking to IPSEA about this as they are always interested in hearing about LEA's devolved funding schemes.

www.ipsea.org.uk

This is bad news for this county's children who need statements. Basically they're saying to the schools, "your problem, you sort it out".