Education: Finance

(asked on 1st June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local education authorities have top sliced funding from the Dedicated Schools Grant for services previously funded out of the general funding element of the Education Services Grant.


Answered by
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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 11th June 2018

The Dedicated Schools Grant includes a Central School Services Block (CSSB), which is allocated to all local authorities. The CSSB includes funding previously allocated through the retained duties element of the education services grant (ESG), which covers the responsibilities held by local authorities for all schools.

The general funding rate of the ESG was only for the responsibilities that local authorities held for their maintained schools. Local authorities can fund services from the maintained school budget shares, with the agreement of the maintained school members of the schools forum, to meet these responsibilities. Local authorities provide this information to the department within their authority proforma tool (APT) and, for the financial year 2018-19, 61 local authorities funded these services from their maintained school budget shares. These authorities are as follows:

Local Authority Name

Camden

York

Lambeth

Bedford Borough

Southwark

Buckinghamshire

Tower Hamlets

Derbyshire

Wandsworth

Poole

Bexley

Hampshire

Brent

Portsmouth

Ealing

Staffordshire

Havering

Swindon

Hillingdon

Bracknell Forest

Hounslow

West Berkshire

Merton

Reading

Waltham Forest

Cambridgeshire

Sandwell

Peterborough

Solihull

Halton

Wolverhampton

Torbay

Knowsley

Essex

Sefton

Herefordshire

Wirral

Medway

Manchester

Blackburn with Darwen

Trafford

Blackpool

Wigan

Shropshire

Doncaster

Telford and Wrekin

Leeds

Cornwall

Wakefield

Gloucestershire

Newcastle upon Tyne

Hertfordshire

North Somerset

Isle of Wight

Hartlepool

Somerset

Redcar and Cleveland

Surrey

Kingston upon Hull

West Sussex

North Lincolnshire

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