High Needs Provision Capital Allocation & Special Provision Capital Funding Allocation - Find a freedom of information request

Request for Information: Special Educational Needs & Disability - High Needs Provision Capital Allocation & Special Provision Capital Funding Allocation.

I would like to request the following information:

High Needs Provision Capital Allocation In 2021, the Department for Education announced that it would provide local authorities with a High Needs Provision Capital Allocation (HNPCA) for the 2021-22 financial year.

The HNPCA is to be paid to local authorities in a single instalment in July 2021. As part of the assurance arrangements for this grant, the Department for Education requested that each local authority provide: 'a short grant assurance data return to provide details of projects they intend to fund using their HNPCA return.

Local authorities therefore should complete the published template on GOV.UK, setting out their intentions for the funding.

Completed templates should be returned to the department by 30 June 2021 by emailing the completed template to: capital.allocations@education.gov.uk'. Please provide me with a copy of the completed assurance data return template file that your council sent to the Department for Education for the HNPCA.

If possible, please provide a copy of the completed Excel template file (.xlsx) rather than a pdf file.

Special Provision Capital Funding In conjunction with the HNCPA data assurance request, the Department for Education also asked local authorities to: 'update and republish their local plan relating to the separate Special Provision Capital Fund (SPCF) for a final time. LAs should provide the DfE a copy of their published SPCF local plan and/or a link to the published document, when they return their completed HNPCA assurance return by 30 June 2021.'

1. Please provide me with a copy of the published Special Provision Capital Fund local plan that your council submitted to the Department for Education to comply with this request.

2. If your council provided the DfE with a link to a published SPCF plan instead, please provide me with the same link to the same plan.

1. Please find attached a copy of the High Needs Provision Capital Allocation grant assurance data return, summarising how this new allocation will be used within the Building Communities of Specialist Provision Strategy; Together in Lincolnshire capital programme.

If you would like to see a copy of this attachment, please request it from CustomerInformationService@lincolnshire.gov.uk quoting the reference number 2144501.

2. The Specialist Provision Capital Fund 2018-2021 template is currently being reviewed and finalised. This document will be available to view on the council's Local Offer in due course.