(UK) Education budget: Almost 8B for special ed needs

Oct 25, 2021, Bloomberg: U.K. Set for $43 Billion in New Spending: Sunak’s Budget Tally https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-25/u-k-set-for-43-billion-in-new-spending-sunak-s-budget-tally

U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has trailed approximately 31 billion pounds ($43 billion) of announcements ahead of his budget on Wednesday, ranging from spending on health care to education. … Education Children with special educational needs will receive a 2.6 billion-pound [$3.6B] funding boost over the next three years. Another 3 billion pounds [$4B] will be spent on improving skills among those aged 16 and over and 560 million pounds on improving adult numeracy.