Sept 12, 2024, Southhams Gazette: More SEND provision is priority
SW England
More places are urgently needed in Plymouth for children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) so the council can reduce costs and keep youngsters closer to home.
Because of capacity pressures at the city’s schools, the council placed 376 children in 37 private schools this year, many of them outside the city, at an extra cost of £43,000 [$57K] a year per pupil.
In the last financial year, the council spent £8.6 million [$11.3M] on independent special education with its one source of government funding a long way short of what was needed.
Its current budget for transporting children to school is also more than £1 million [$1.3M].
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