Question: How will funding be maintained in high needs funding areas?

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:
There could be more information, but it seems to answer the question.  The answer is about funding to educational facilities.
This is a detailed answer to how various organizations are maintaining funding for high-needs areas.

Reviewer ratings:
Acceptable
Excellent

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:
The information is about funding, but it is not very specific. It is on topic, but I don't think that it answers the topic very well.
This details the areas that funding is available, but doesn't actually mention high-needs funding areas.

Reviewer ratings:
Could be Improved
Could be Improved

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
section_headers: Sector-specific guidance
High needs funding
section_content: Local authorities have an important role in making sure that the high needs
funding they receive as part of their DSG is used effectively in making
educational provision for children and young people up to the age of 25 with
Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans, and other vulnerable children and
young people. Authorities will continue to receive their high needs budgets
and should continue to pay top-up and other high needs funding so that the
employment and payment of staff supporting children and young people with
special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and those requiring
alternative provision, can continue. High needs funding will therefore
continue to be paid to the following types of setting, whether from local or
central government:

local authority-maintained schools (mainstream, special and pupil referral units)
academies and free schools (mainstream, special and alternative provision)
non-maintained special schools
independent schools, including independent special schools
independent alternative provision
high needs places in further education (FE) colleges and sixth form colleges
special post-16 providers
hospital schools

Funding will be maintained and should not be reduced because some or all
children and young people are not in attendance (because of sickness or self-
isolation, or where the institution has temporarily or partially closed).
Similarly, where settings pay top-up or other funding for pupils attending
alternative provision, or pay for other SEND or alternative provision
services, these payments should continue to be made so that teachers and other
staff in all types of setting can be paid in accordance with their existing
employment contracts. If placements and services for the summer term have not
yet been agreed, settings should be willing to fund on the basis of previous
patterns of placements and commissioning. Where changes to the delivery of
special provision and alternative provision are required, the first response
should be to redeploy existing resources, if necessary between settings and
other institutions as well as within settings.
Teaching and non-teaching staff (administration, operations, maintenance and
catering) should not be furloughed where they are funded from continued high
needs funding, and where necessary and feasible, should be available for
redeployment within settings and in other settings to assist in maintaining
provision for vulnerable children and young people, and the children of
critical workers.
[DSG]: dedicated schools grant
  [EHC]: education, health and care
  [SEND]: special educational needs and disability
  [FE]: further education

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This gives a lot of detail about how high-needs funding is being maintained and what specific areas are continuing to be funded.
This seems like a good answer.  It talks about how the educational facilities will be funded.  I think it answers the questions very well.

Reviewer ratings:
Excellent
Excellent