§ Mr. WattsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the maximum extra funding is that a child can receive under the ethnicity and other factors. [78611]
§ Mr. Stephen TwiggThe existing Education Standard Spending Assessment does not identify children with additional educational needs, so it is not possible to give the maximum funding that an LEA receives for a child through ethnicity and other factors. Under the proposals issued for consultation on 8 July, the number of children with additional educational needs due to poverty and ethnicity or language needs is estimated for each authority, which receives a top-up for each such child, either for poverty or for ethnicity or language needs, but not for both. Decisions on the top-ups, and their level, will be announced by the beginning of December.