Issue - meetings

Report ED15110

The Forum received a report asking for their support for an application to the Secretary of State for a Minimum Funding Guarantee (MFG) exemption. The application form was attached to the report as appendix 1.

The Council and the Schools Forum had agreed that £3.5m of unspent Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) would be allocated to schools for 2015/16 at £79 per pupil to be included in the Age Weighted Pupil Unit (AWPU) funding. However, this was for one year only, and to ensure that the MFG did not artificially replicate this funding for future years it was necessary to make a formal application to the Secretary of State to ask for this amount to be excluded from the MFG calculation. 

RESOLVED that the application for a Minimum Funding Guarantee exemption relating to additional funding that was allocated to schools in 2015/16 be supported.