Issue - meetings

Report DCYP12046

The Portfolio Holder introduced a report outlining the final estimated School Funding Settlement for 2012/13, including the Pupil Premium, Minimum Funding Guarantee and the Dedicated Schools Grant.

This report was very similar to the one submitted to the January meeting.  Officers drew Members attention to the changes and in particular the £110k for the Pupil Referral Unit (PRU). Since the pupil census in January 2012, the numbers of pupils in the PRU had continued to increase and the additional funding would allow the PRU to provide extra staffing/resources to support individual pupils. 

Members also noted that the Local Authority had put in place a protocol asking all academies to sign up to a formal agreement which would allow the AWPU funding relating to excluded pupils to be recouped by the Local Authority.  They also noted that all the academies had signed up to using the PRU for excluded pupils.

RESOLVED that the Portfolio Holder be recommended to agree the proposals on the use of the Dedicated Schools Grant.