This is such an important article. For years, school leaders have been saying they’ve had to offset funding gaps in health & care provision for SEND pupils from the school budget.
For years, it’s been clear this is unsustainable.
What’s the incentive to be inclusive if it risks financial disaster?
Schools frequently say that higher levels of SEND and FSM cause bigger financial pressures - a new analysis from @jabedahmed.bsky.social provides evidence for that: deficits in financially struggling trusts are almost 75 per cent bigger in those serving those cohorts
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Tes analysis sparks calls for reform of funding and accountability systems to better support academy trusts with high numbers of vulnerable pupils
