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Local Digital Fund Round 5 Award (to explore the digital build of a centralised special educational needs top-up funding service)
Decision Maker: Director: Education and Skills
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
If a pupil in an education setting has very
complex needs and requires specialist help to make progress with
their education, the school can apply for additional funding. This
is called 'element 3' or 'top up' funding.
The bid is concerned with the additional development and
enhancement of a centralised web-based application for the new DSG
High Needs Block Element 3 funding process (more commonly known as
‘top-up’).
The conditions of the bid were favourable, and no match funding is
required. The primary conditions of the bid are to agree to publish
all outputs of the project under open license.
The funding will be used to deliver a project which the Council had
already identified as being necessary.
Decision:
a)To accept funding in the sum of
£314,200 following a successful bid to the Department for
Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Local Digital Fund
Round 5 to explore the digital build/interface of a centralised
special educational needs top-up funding service.
b)To spend the funding award asset out in the bid submission.
Alternative options considered:
Option 1: don’t apply to the fund.
Rejected as the conditions of the bid were favourable in the
context of the project i.e., no match-funding required, but sharing
of project outcomes is cost neutral and which aligns with
organisational values.
Publication date: 23/11/2021
Date of decision: 18/11/2021