This request is in regards to funding early years settings have received from the council for children with special educational needs (SEND). It is for pre-schools and nurseries.
Please could you state the total amount of money you have had available to give to settings each year for supporting SEND children. Please provide the data for the past 10 years and what the figure was and how much you provided to settings.
We do not hold this information; we can confirm that we hold totals in relation to all SEND funding and not just for settings.
Please can you also state how many settings each year have requested additional funding.
We do not hold a central record of this information. Therefore to extract this information from individual case files would take longer than the appropriate time limit of 18 hours and compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time