school funding and places update gary redhead 18 th september 2013 children’s & adults’...
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Overall Balances in Ealing are too high
• Over last ten years balances have:
• More than tripled in the primary sector, £4.8m to £15.5m
• Doubled in the high school sector, £5.7m to £11.7m
• Are the highest in cash and per school than our statistical neighbours
Reducing balances
• £9m reduction, an average of £100,000 per school would equate to the median for similar LAs
• £13m reduction, an average of £150,000 per school would bring us into line with Hounslow
• No school with a gross balance in excess of 15 per cent, unless for significant project agreed with the LA,
• No school with a unearmarked balance of 8% primary and special and 5 % high schools
How can schools do this?
• No need for panic measures just meet your spending plans for earmarked balances, achieving 50% of these would be a big step forward
• 2013-14 Schools say they will spend balances on:
• Balance 13/14 budget £6.0m
• Building Projects £8.6m
• ICT and FF&E £1.6m
• Other items £4.6m
• TOTAL £20.8m
Help and support
• Plan ahead. Building work of £8.6m is about £1m per school vacation week. Can the supply chain cope?
• Group together similar projects with others or consider adding your work to our summer programmes
• Professional advice and support
• Please talk to us about funding longer term projects
• Closely monitor revenue spending
• We want you to spend your money on improving children’s experiences – claw back is a last but real option
School Funding 2014-15: Background
• Long term desire to have a national funding formula across main parties
• Greater certainty for existing and new providers
• Increase transparency
• Maximum delegation to schools
Unless de-delegation approved by Schools Forum
Limited range of funding can be retained.
2014-15 Key Elements
• Three notional blocks retained
Schools, high needs and early years
• MFG -1.5% per pupil
• Delegation of first £6,000 of SEN statement mandatory
• No change to notional SEN budget
• Change to mobility factor and deprivation
Consultation Key Questions
• Minor change to EYFSS
• Deprivation – proposal to move from FSM to Ever 6, longer term stability in funding formula
• Mobility – Only funds schools with more than 10% mobility, proposal to shift balance of funding into EAL and Ever 6 Primary and EAL only for high schools
• Delegation of first £6K – proposal to cap losses, £10,000 primary and £20,000 secondary
• Responses emailed to tuckerl@ealing.gov.uk by FRIDAY 27th September
Funding Pressures• Modeling assumed cash values remain at
2013-14 levels, but key pressures:
• Pupil Growth September 2014 up to 10 FE more, need to fund about £750,000 in pupil growth fund
• Transitional Protection of £440,000 reduced
• SEN growth pressures and potential changes to high needs funding
• Pressures offset to some extent by last year’s growth in numbers
Primary Places
• Between 2014 and 2016 project that there will be up to 14 FE over 25.5 FE permanent
expansions agreed
• Potential pressures across all areas but particularly Acton and Ealing
• Projections suggest births have peaked at around 5,800
• Significant uncertainties – eg benefit cap, state of the economy
• Mix of potential free schools, expansions and bulge classes
For further information contact
Gary RedheadEaling CouncilAssistant Director: Schools Planning and ResourcesChildren’s Services020 8825 5773gredhead@ealing.gov.uk
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