Issue - meetings

Report ED12059

The Portfolio Holder introduced a report providing details of the outcome of consultation undertaken with schools around the 2013/14 review of funding for schools, which aimed to simplify the local funding arrangements for 2013-14 and to introduce a new approach to high needs funding that would help to improve transparency, quality and choice for young people and their families and carers. 

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.  Maintained primary school representatives also agreed that funding for contingencies, free school meal eligibility and staff costs supply cover would be de-delegated back to the Local Authority, but that funding for support for Ethnic Minority pupils and for the Behaviour Support Services would not be de-delegated.

RESOLVED that the Portfolio Holder be recommended to agree that funding model version 12 be used for the 2013/14 funding formula.