Surrey County Council’s Cabinet has approved a series of measures that will accelerate the creation of specialist education places, ensuring more children and young people with  additional needs and disabilities can receive high quality education.

The use of Surrey’s 2025/26 High Needs Provision Capital Allocation Grant, totalling £16.14 million, will deliver projects that will create at least 220 new specialist places for the next academic year.

The investments will help meet rising demands for specialist places.