SLC release new DSA statistics

Supplementary statistics released last week by the Student Loans Company have a more detailed breakdown of DSA student numbers and expenditure than have previously been made available in public. Over the past 3 full academic years, the number of students in receipt of DSA has increased and so has the total DSA spend. The spend per student appears fairly static at around the £2.2k mark. In 12/13 the portioning of DSA seems to have taken a turn: less spent on equipment, more on non-medical helper. Hard to come to any conclusions without the complete figures for following years. Very obvious the needs assessment fee will come under scrutiny now it has been separated out from NMH and placed in general allowance: it’s there plain to see.