Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there is a formal mechanism by which educational organisations concerned about levels of funding can effectively communicate those concerns to the Department.

The Department maintains a formal process for individual institutions to share their school funding concerns.

Academies are able to raise concerns with their regional Education and Skills Funding Agency contacts.

Concerns about the finances of individual maintained schools should be raised with their maintaining local authority.

If individual academies or maintained schools have concerns over the local distribution of the funding they should discuss this with their school forum.

At a national level, officials convene regular meetings of the School and Academy Funding Group and its corresponding sub-groups, which have membership from a wide range of organisations representing schools and academies, local authorities, teachers and head teachers, to advise the Department on matters relating to all aspects of school and high needs funding.