School Funding and places update Gary Redhead 18 th September 2013 CHILDREN’S & ADULTS’ SERVICES.

School Funding and places update

Gary Redhead18th September 2013

CHILDREN’S & ADULTS’ SERVICES

• School Balances

• School Funding 2014-15

• Primary Places

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

Balances 2003-4 to 2012-13

Balances 2003-4 to 2012-13 by sector

Balances 2011-12 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]