What recent assessment has been made of the adequacy of SEND provision in schools in Bournemouth? There is growing anger from headteachers and parents about the council's handling of dedicated school grants. The council demands unaffordable sums from schools, leading to potential loss of teaching assistants. I ask for an investigation into the council's decision-making to ensure funding stays with schools.

How many children in schools in Bournemouth have relied on special educational needs and disability provision because they had an acquired brain injury in the last five years? If the Minister does not know this answer today, will he be able to write back with it? If his officials cannot provide him with the answer, will he ensure that the Department establishes how many children across all schools have had an acquired brain injury in the last five years?

I am grateful to the Minister for that reply. He speaks about increased funding, but there is growing anger from headteachers and parents alike in Bournemouth about the mismanagement of the dedicated schools grant over the past couple of years by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council. School heads have now taken the unprecedented step of writing open letters of concern to the council. The council is not following the required guidance and is demanding unaffordable sums from schools which, if implemented, would see the loss of teaching assistants. I ask the Department for Education to investigate the council's decision making, to ensure that correct guidelines are followed in the future and that the right levels of funding stay with the schools.