Decision details

That the proposal to use funding model version 12 for the 2013/14 funding formula be agreed.

During 2012, a number of documents were published by the Department for Education outlining the Government’s plans for School Funding Reform. This was the first step towards the introduction of a new national funding formula which will ensure that similar pupils will attract similar levels of funding no matter where they go to school in the country. In preparation for this, the Department for Education is seeking to simplify local funding arrangements for 2013-14 and to introduce a new approach to high needs funding that will help to improve transparency, quality and choice for young people and their families.

Following agreement at the meeting of Schools’ Forum on 18^th October 2012, the Local Authority released four proposed funding models to all schools as part of the consultation on the proposed funding formula for 2013/14.  The Local Authority received 38 consultation responses, comprising 33 from Primary Schools (including six individual responses from one school and three from another school), one from a Special School and four from Secondary Schools, and at its meeting on 18^th October 2012, the Schools’ Forum endorsed the Local Authority’s recommendation for funding model version 12 to be adopted as the new funding formula for 2012/13.