Question: How will schools providing services to students with special needs be funding during the coronavirus?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Maintaining education and skills training provision: further education providers
section_headers: Funding
High needs funding for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
section_content: Colleges and other providers will continue to receive from the ESFA
allocations of high needs place funding (at £6,000 per place per annum) for
the remainder of the academic year 2019 to 2020.
Local authorities will also continue to receive their high needs funding for
the financial year beginning April 2020, and should continue to pay high needs
top-up funding to colleges, special post-16 institutions and other providers
at the rates they have determined. This will ensure that the institution’s
employment and payment of staff supporting students with special educational
needs and disabilities (SEND) can continue. If placements for the summer term,
and top-up funding, were anticipated but have not yet been agreed, the local
authority should consider funding the institution on the basis of previous
patterns of placements and commissioning, so as to make sure that the staff
can remain in employment and be available for when the special provision is
needed. Staff in institutions who support vulnerable students should also be
available for redeployment if their services are needed elsewhere, or they can
provide support in different ways. Co-ordination between institutions, and
with local authorities, will be important in arranging this.
[ESFA]: Education Skills Funding Agency
  [SEND]: special educational needs and disabilities

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has information about how schools can secure funding to provide services for students with special needs.
The information is about education, but I don't find that it is specific enough.  There really isn't something about special needs funding.

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Excellent
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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance School funding: exceptional costs associated with coronavirus (COVID-19) for the period March to July 2020
section_headers: Eligibility for this funding
section_content: Funding will be available for all state-funded mainstream and special schools,
and alternative provision, including:

primary, secondary and all through maintained schools, academies and free schools
16 to 19 academies and maintained schools
maintained special schools
special academies and free schools
non-maintained special schools
pupil referral units
alternative provision academies and free schools
maintained hospital schools and academies


Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Lists the schools eligible for funding, but doesn't mention students with special needs at all.
There is info here, but it's not specific enough to answer the question.  The answer is just a list and it doesn't say anything about special needs students.

Reviewer ratings:
Bad
Could be Improved

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance School funding: exceptional costs associated with coronavirus (COVID-19) for the period March to July 2020
section_headers: How schools can access funding
section_content: Funding will be available to cover costs relating to specific items. These
items are ones we judge are likely to be necessary to allow schools to provide
appropriate support to those children who will continue to attend school under
the current arrangements.
Funding will be available to schools that are unable to meet such additional
costs from their existing resources, or which they could only meet by drawing
down on reserves and undermining their long-term financial sustainability.
While we are not asking schools to draw on existing reserves to meet these
costs, we do not expect schools to make a claim against this funding if they
are anticipating that they will be able to add to their reserves in the 2020
to 2021 financial year.
We are asking schools to make the necessary payments from their existing
budgets and record these in line with local finance policies. In June, we will
publish further guidance for schools on the process for informing us of any
additional costs relating to coronavirus (COVID-19). We understand the
significant challenges schools are facing at present and will therefore make
the process for reporting this information as simple as possible. We will then
make payments – direct to academies, or to local authorities to pass onto
their schools – to reimburse schools for costs they apply for up to the limits
set out below.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has general information about school funding but doesn't address students with special needs.
The answer does talk about educational programs, but it isn't very specific.  There isn't any information on the funding of special needs students.

Reviewer ratings:
Bad
Could be Improved