Recent data: Year 2013 2014 2015 Number of HI learners 288 339 335 educated within Northumberland In 2013 the government reformed the education funding system. The new policy is that all SEND learners who require less than £6000 per year additional support shall be considered ‘school support’. Those with higher levels of need who require more than £6000 per year of additional support are called ‘High Needs’. Decisions about degrees of need for hearing impaired children and young people are made on an individual basis, reflecting their ability to learn within a classroom. There is no concrete rule that e.g severe/profoundly deaf students are ‘high need’, and those with lesser degrees of loss are not. 2014 2015 HI learners in mainstream education with high needs funding 26 24 HI learners in mainstream education with no high needs funding 313 311 Northumberland has/supports the following education provision for HI learners. The table names the provision with the number of HI learners supported in 2014-2015 in brackets: Education Pre school to 4 School-age to 16 Post 16, to 18 Adult, 18-25 years years Mainstream In homes, Schools, School 6th Forms Northumberland with ‘regular’ childcare and academies and (2) FE College (via SSS support nurseries private schools Northumberland SLA) countywide (23) (via SLA) College (via SLA) countywide (38) Mainstream Childcare and Schools, School 6th Forms Northumberland with ‘monitored’ Nurseries academies and (7) FE College (via SSS support countywide (14) private schools Northumberland SLA) (via SLA) College (via SLA) countywide (1) (164) County Special Special Schools Special Schools Special Schools eg Schools with SSS eg The Grove, eg The Grove, The Grove, support Barndale, Priory, Barndale, Priory, Barndale, Priory, the Dales (26) the Dales (4)
Recent data: Year 2013 2014 2015 Number of HI learners educated within Northumberland 288 339 335 In 2013 the government reformed the education funding system. The new policy is that all SEND learners who require less than £6000 per year additional support shall be considered ‘school support’. Those with higher levels of need who require more than £6000 per year of additional support are called ‘High Needs’. Decisions about degrees of need for hearing impaired children and young people are made on an individual basis, reflecting their ability to learn within a classroom. There is no concrete rule that e.g severe/profoundly deaf students are ‘high need’, and those with lesser degrees of loss are not. 2014 2015 HI learners in mainstream education with high needs funding 26 24 HI learners in mainstream education with no high needs funding 313 311 Northumberland has/supports the following education provision for HI learners. The table names the provision with the number of HI learners supported in 2014-2015 in brackets: Education Pre school to 4 School-age to 16 Post 16, to 18 years Adult, 18-25 years Mainstream with ‘regular’ SSS support In homes, childcare and nurseries countywide (23) Schools, academies and private schools (via SLA) countywide (38) School 6th Forms (2) Northumberland College (via SLA) Northumberland FE College (via SLA) Mainstream with ‘monitored’ SSS support Childcare and Nurseries countywide (14) Schools, academies and private schools (via SLA) countywide (164) School 6th Forms (7) Northumberland College (via SLA) (1) Northumberland FE College (via SLA) County Special Schools with SSS support Special Schools eg The Grove, Barndale, Priory, Special Schools eg The Grove, Barndale, Priory, the Dales (26) Special Schools eg The Grove, Barndale, Priory, the Dales (4)
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