Decision details

2023/24 Dedicated Schools Grant

Decision Maker: Portfolio Holder for Children, Education and Families

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Decision:

That the Dedicated Schools Grant allocation for 2023/24 and the methodology of its distribution be approved. 

Reasons for the decision:

The Local Authority is obliged to account for and distribute funding received from the Government for the purposes of Education in accordance with the relevant legislative accounting procedure. 

 

The Dedicated Schools Grant allocation for 2023/24 has been notified for the Local Authority as a total sum of £342,864,751 allocated across four blocks.  These blocks comprise the High Needs Block (£63,108,147); Early Years Block (£22,251,398); Schools’ Block (£255,459,627); and the Central Schools Block (£2,045,579). 

Publication date: 02/02/2023

Date of decision: 02/02/2023

Effective from: 10/02/2023

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