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£24m boost to Cambs school funding - but council says it isn't enough as high needs demand grows Spiralling costs and budget black hole leave council in "ridiculous" situation, education boss says (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy n...

Mr Lewis told Cambridgeshire County Council’s children and young people committee on Tuesday (January 19) that the council is “very grateful” for the “quite significant” increase in funding, but he also described it as “not enough”. He described deficits on high needs education spending as a national issue, saying that his understanding of the situation is that “the majority of local authorities” have such a deficit now. He described the growing high needs education deficit in Cambridgeshire as a “ridiculous situation” and said that he believes more than half the local a...