People and Communities
Strategic Schools Forum
4th March 2020 9:30am Weston College BS23 2AL Agenda Action Lead Apologies and Declarations of Interest - SSF 1. 9:30 members are reminded that they need to declare an John Simpson interest in any item that is on the agenda
2. 9:35 Minutes of the previous meeting John Simpson
Matters arising – not on the agenda 3. 9:40 John Simpson Notification of AOB -
Chair’s Business • Vice Chair – ratifying the appointment of a Vice 4. 9:45 Chair John Simpson • Membership – endorsing the decision of the Education Excellence Partnership Board of filling a current vacancy
Governance: 5. 10:00 (will be verbal update if required, none Information Emma Whitehead expected)
Finance Report, incorporating: • 2019-20 Monitor • 2020-21 DSG Budget and 6. 10:00 the Funded rates for 2, 3&4 Decision Emma Whitehead year olds • Elements of the Council Budget for 2020-21 Education Inclusion Service – 7. 10:30 Information Wendy Packer verbal update
Emma Whitehead 8. 10:40 Internal Audit Annual Report Information on behalf of Peter Cann
9. 10:45 Evaluation of meeting – Date of next meeting- 17 June 2020 – Venue: TBC Papers will be issued on Wednesday 10 June 2020 where possible.
People and Communities Strategic Schools Forum
Wednesday 15th January 2020 09:30am, Backwell School
Member Title P – Present S – Substitute A - Apologies ACADEMY REPRESENTATIVES - vote
LOUISE MALIK Chief Financial and Operating Officer, Lighthouse P Schools Partnership
CHRIS HILDREW Academy Headteacher, Churchill Academy & Sixth P Form WILLIAM HARDING Academy Governor/Trustee of North Somerset P School in Bristol-based Cathedral School Trust TONY SEARLE Academy Headteacher, Hans Price Academy A
MARK ANTOINE Academy representative – Secondary Business P Manager/Chief Operations Officer ADAM MATTHEWS Academy CEO, Extended Learning Academies P Network SUE ELLIOTT Academy Head Teacher, Worle Village Primary P School - Kaleidoscope STEPHEN WEBBER Academy Headteacher, Clevedon Learning Trust P
VACANT Academy Governor
MAINTAINED SCHOOLS HEADTEACHERS - vote SARAH HARDING Primary Headteacher Kewstoke P TRACEY TOWLER Special School Headteacher Westhaven School P EMMA GUNDRY PRU Principal, Voyage Learning Campus P MAINTAINED SCHOOLS GOVERNORS (PRIMARY) - vote WENDY FARRIER Maintained School Representative – Primary P Governor (Churchill Primary) NON-SCHOOLS MEMBERS – no vote JOHN SIMPSON Independent Community Representative, Chair A CLLR CATHERINE Executive Member for Children and Young Peoples A GIBBONS Services CLLR WENDY GRIGGS Chair of CYP Policy and Scrutiny Panel P
CLAIRE HUDSON Diocese of Bath and Wells P
PAUL TRAUBERMAN Early Years – Rainbow Smiles Nursery P
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KAREN WORTHINGTON 14 – 19 – Weston College P
JON REDDIFORD RTPA A
OBSERVERS – no vote MIKE EVANS Special School Governor (Ravenswood School P (CoG)) IAN SCOTT National Education Union A SALLY VARLEY Service Leader – Strategic Planning & P Governance, North Somerset Council
PRESENTING OFFICER PRESENT – no vote WENDY PACKER Education Inclusion Service Lead and Virtual School P Headteacher NORTH SOMERSET COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES (FOR INFORMATION) – no vote SHEILA SMITH Director of People and Communities A KATHERINE SOKOL Finance Business Partner A EFION PRICE Assistant Director Children’s Support & A Safeguarding Education Funding Manager with responsibility for SSF – no vote EMMA WHITEHEAD Education Funding Manager P CLERK – no vote HANNAH CUSHEN Business Support P
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Item Issue Action
1. Apologies and Declarations of interest (CH) CH chaired the meeting as JS was absent, he welcomed everyone to the meeting and apologies were noted.
There were no declarations of interest reported.
2. Minutes of the previous meeting (CH) Approved for accuracy.
3. Matters arising that are not on the agenda and notification of AOB (CH)
Matters Arising
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High Needs data – this was distributed with the paperwork for the
meeting.
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Insurance - EW confirmed that the insurance followed the Financial
Year – April to March.
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Numbers of children who lost Top Up funding based on criteria –
This was discussed later in the meeting.
There was no notification of AOB.
4. Chair’s Business (CH) There was no Chair’s Business to discuss.
5. Governance (EW) EW thanked CH for stepping in as Chair of the meeting in JS’s absence. EW highlighted the need for a formal vice chair, she proposed that one is elected at the March 2020 meeting and invited nominations. She would include a formal invitation when the draft minutes are circulated. Action: All All
6. Finance Report (EW) The Finance Report was distributed prior to the meeting.
2019 -20 Monitor EW advised that the next months monitor period would be Period 8, which runs to the end of November 2019 and is a continuation of what was previously distributed.
LM expressed concern that there are pressures in the High Needs block and that SSF is not able to do anything, due to the funding limitations and make any decisions that help the issues, she felt it should be highlighted when the Departement visit re the deficit. This was both Acknowledged acknowledged and supported by those present at the meeting. by the SSF
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2020-21 Budget EW advised that the DfE meeting re the DEG deficit will be on 31st March, John Simpson will be there to represent SSF, Sheila Smith, Richard Penska, Emma Whitehead, Wendy Packer and Katherine Sokol will also be present.
EW advised that legally a balanced budget needs to be set, EW highlighted that the ability to get money into special schools is limited.
EW advised that the 0.7% transfer disapplication was submitted and that the Department had emailed on Monday to state no decision will be received prior to the Authority Pro-Forma (APT) submission deadline of Tuesday 21 January and that we can chose which one to submit. Therefore we will, with the support of SSF submit the 0.7% version of the APT.
Sheila Smith is to run a SEND summit, which JS will facilitate. It will focus on the key SEND issues.
SW asked that out of county placements are addressed at the DfE meeting as he felt they should be challenged nationally. EW agreed that this would be covered.
There were discussions regarding not being able to meet the need in schools due to levels of funding now due to cuts to Top up Funding and this feels like failure.
EW advised that she is in contact with South Gloucestershire Council as they are in a similar position to North Somerset and are considered a statistical neighbour.
Scheme for Financing Schools EW advised that revisions from the last report had been highlighted in green and she expected them to change again before the DfE meeting in March.
EG asked, with regard to Item 6.2.2, whether there was any detail on what expenditures would be? EW advised that she would respond to EG EW outside of the meeting. Action: EW
The SSF approved the Scheme of Financing for Schools. Approved by the SSF EW encouraged those present to study Appendix D before the next meeting in March and bring any questions to the meeting. Action: All All
There was a question regarding Top-up Funding rates out of county, are NSC rates used or those of the host LA. It was confirmed that the host rates are used.
7. Early Years Consultation (EW) EW reminded all that the consultation was due to be on deprivation
funding. There has to be a deprivation supplement for 3 and 4 year olds.
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EW explained that currently 5% of the total income for 3 and 4 year olds is used for the deprivation element.
Deprivation Funding has to be available as an option, she proposed that 5% is taken from the Early Years budget for this this year to cover the funding and it is reviewed at a later date.
The allocation to providers is calculated using the previous year’s cohort and the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI) are applied. This calculates an annual amount that is then allocated on a monthly basis.
SE felt that some providers miss out on the funding because they have to apply for it. EW advised that there is no application to make for deprivation funding. There are applications for Early Years Pupil Premium that have to be made but this is separate.
Deprivation funding is currently paid to approximately 15% of the total cohort – the total budget for deprivation is just under £480k in the 2019- 20 budget. Her recommendation would be to keep the funding as stable as possible for 2020/21. This would mean that the overall hourly rates of funding would mean a minimum increase of 9p per hour for all funded children on both the 2 year old and 3 and 4 year old current funding rates which are £5.18 and £3.86.
Discussions regarding a consultation on options then followed. It was felt by SSF that the formula should stay as it is for the 2020/21 financial year but review it for 2021/22.
EW pointed out that consultations have little engagement and that having met with all providers in the first full week of January that at this juncture, most just want to know what their hourly rate will be for 2020- 21 as soon as possible.
It was agreed that EW would continue to liaise with the sector and the The SSF SSF agreed to keep the funding as it is. agreed to keep the funding at its current level
8. Education Inclusion Service Report The report was distributed prior to the meeting.
CH advised that the SSF were required to vote on the recommendations shown in the report, which WP summarised.
The consultation period had been extended due to Purdah and had closed on 12th January, responses had been low and there had been no responses at the public consultations either. Cllr Griggs was disappointed by the return on the consultation.
CH invited the SSF to vote:
Recommendation 4a: ‘Approval for new school criteria as presented in Appendix 2 of the report.’
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EG was concerned that the SSF was being asked to make a decision without having clarity on the financial impact. CH pointed out that the SSF had asked the LA to renew the Top-up funding previously, which Approved by they had done. The SSF voted: For – 8, Against – 2, Abstained – 2 the SSF
Recommendation 4b: ‘Agree that the number of moderation sessions is reduced from four to three and these will occur three times a year in Agreed by the March, June and November.’ SSF This was agreed by the SSF.
Recommendation 4c: ‘Agree that mandatory annual TUF training needs to be undertaken by new staff only.’ Agreed by the This was agreed by the SSF. SSF
Recommendation 5a: ‘Approval is given to the proposed new process and funding for Post 16 settings as presented in Appendix 3.’ Agreed by the This was agreed by the SSF. SSF
Recommendation 5b: ‘Approval is given to the new criteria for Post 16 settings as presented in Appendix 4.’ Agreed by the This was agreed by the SSF. SSF
Recommendation 5c: ‘Approval is given to the new criteria for the Voyage Learning Campus as presented in Appendix 5.’ Agreed by the This was agreed by the SSF, EG chose to abstain. SSF
The SSF acknowledged that the consultation did have an impact on the decisions made.
WP advised that the changes to the criteria have an impact on students in schools, making it harder to attain Top-up funding. It will affect how schools can support those young people.
EG felt that there is a collective responsibility to keep young people in North Somerset schools, but this decision may contradict that. CH felt that they were trapped in a cycle where lack of money in the system has affected the decision. It was felt that it could cause more exclusions and increase the number of out of county placements. There was a need to look at the savings to pay off the deficit, by creatively increasing capacity in North Somerset and developing specialists within that, without building new settings, which take time. This could then be presented to the DfE.
WP thanked the SSF for their comments and endorsed them. She warned that this year there had already been 27 permanent exclusions, compared to a total last year of 49. She hoped the SEND Summit which is planned for the spring, would explore other options.
EG advised that the CME budget is significantly overspent, and this will increase. LM felt that children were being significantly let down by the system which was a national outrage and questioned the impact this would have in the next 30 years.
SV advised that there are the same number of students, but the level of need has increased, she urged the SSF to be creative and come
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forward to SV or WP with ideas for expanding the provision. This would allow for a local plan to be ready for when funding becomes available. Action: All All
AM asked for sample data tracking the amount of exclusions against the amount of money used in the system and the impact it has had. WP agreed to collate these figures. Action: WP WP
With regard to the timeline for the implementation of the new Top-Up The SSF Funding criteria, WP advised there will be training in February and the agreed to new criteria could apply in March or June. She clarified that this would apply the new apply to children for September placements. The SSF agreed to the criteria from March date and for links to go in Noticeboard. March 2020
9. Proposed SSF meeting dates for the 2020-21 financial Dates were year agreed by the SSF Dates were circulated prior to the meeting for consideration.
There were discussions regarding the best day for the meeting or having the meeting on different days, but it was agreed to keep to Wednesdays.
The dates agreed were: 17th June 2020 7th October 2020 25th November 2020 20th January 2021 (may need to be brought forward to 13th January 2021 depending on the APT deadline for 2021). 10th March 2021
10. Evaluation of Meeting CH thanked attendees for their continued support of the meeting and the 6. good attendance.
11. Date of Next Meeting Wednesday, 4th March 2020, 9:30am. The Balcony Room, Weston College Conference Centre, Knightstone Road, Weston-super-Mare BS23 2AL
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Strategic Schools Forum -4 March 4 2020
Agenda Item No.6
Finance Report
Incorporating: • Monitoring of the 2019-20 School Budget • DSG Budget for 2020-21 and the Funded rates for 2, 3 & 4 year olds • Elements of the Council Budget for 2020-21
Emma Whitehead
On behalf of Sheila Smith Director of People and Communities
REPORT TO THE STRATEGIC SCHOOLS FORUM
DATE OF MEETING: 4 MARCH 2020
SUBJECT OF REPORT: FINANCE REPORT; MONITORING OF THE 2019-20 SCHOOL BUDGET, SCHOOL BUDGET FOR 2020-21 AND ELEMENTS OF THE COUNCIL BUDGET FOR 2020-21
OFFICER/MEMBER PRESENTING: EDUCATION FUNDING MANAGER
RECOMMENDATIONS
The Strategic Schools Forum is recommended to: - i) Note the period 9 monitor and the forecast budget position to the end of 2019-20 and the key contributing factors ii) Endorse the 2020-21 DSG Budget and the funded rates for 2, 3 & 4 year olds iii) Note that the DfE did not approve the additional 0.2% (£260,000) transfer from the schools block to the high needs block, and agree the methodology for returning this to schools on the basis of pupil numbers as described in paragraph 3.38 and Appendix D iv) Note the relevant elements of the Council’s budget setting process for 2020-21 and their impact on children and young people and the education community.
1. SUMMARY OF REPORT
This report provides the opportunity to review the monitoring position as at the end of period 9 of the 2019-20 schools budget, endorse the 2020-21 schools budget and be informed of the appropriate elements of the Council’s budget for 2020-21, and, in particular, to be aware of the elements of growth planned and the implications for children and young people and the education community.
2. POLICY
The Strategic Schools Forum’s setting and monitoring of the schools budget and being kept informed of key financial items is an integral feature of its overall responsibilities and it ensures that resources are planned, aligned and managed effectively to allow schools the maximum resources available and in turn aides schools successful delivery of their aims and objectives. The 2019-20 schools budget was set within the allowable parameters after consultation with key stakeholders and decisions taken by the Strategic Schools Forum (SSF) and the same applies to the 2020-21 schools budget.
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3. DETAILS
2019-20 Monitoring Report until the 31st December 2019.
3.1 This is the fifth monitoring report SSF have received in relation to the Schools Budget in 2019-20 and covers the period to the end of December 2019.
Set out below are explanations of the headings as set out in Appendix A:
Column 1 Budget Description Column 2 Original Budget Column 3 Budget Movements Column 4 Final Budget Column 5 Expenditure to date Column 6 Projected Outturn Column 7 Variance for the year
3.2 Appendix A shows the areas of variance continue to be those are as expected and are all in the High Needs Block. Line 19 shows a variance of £68,606 which has been previously reported to SSF and is in relation to the ending of the SALT and SALSA elements of the Somerset Education Services contract.
3.3 Delegated Place Funding, Line 21 is projecting an overspend of £161,584 this is due to the increased places during the financial year at our Special Schools and remains the same as the last monitor report to SSF.
3.4 SEN Equipment and other costs, Line 22 is projecting an overspend of £217,289 (the same as period 8) and this is due to costs associated with children and young people with Education Health Care Plans (ECHPs). In 2020-21 this budget will be split into its component elements to ensure greater transparency.
3.5 Out of Authority Placements, Line 23 remains the largest pressure; the forecast year- end-spend being c.£5.86m. This would be an overspend of c.£866k and an increase in spend of c.£1.86m when compared with 2018/19. Appendix C has the current cases.
The table below illustrates that the total forecast increase in spend from 2018/19 to 2019/20 is 31%, which is made up of a 18% increase in activity and a 11% increase in average unit costs. Analysis of expected future demand indicates that this is an increases that is likely to be sustained.
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Special Out of County Placements Cost and Volume Summary Change 2019/20 2019/20 2018/19 variance Change P9 forecast v. 2018/19 2018/19 variance to 2019/20 2019/20 Forecast to Forecast V. 2018/19 % Budget Actual Budget Budget P9 Forecast Budget P8 Forecast P8 Forecast actual Change Grand Total - Av Numbers 91.42 102.36 10.94 111.49 120.92 9.43 121.09 -0.17 18.56 18% - Average unit cost £43,755 £43,755 £0 £44,849 £48,454 £3,605 £48,378 £76 £4,699 11% - Total Cost £4,478,753 £5,859,035 £34,013 £5,858,118 £918 £1,380,283 31% - Budget £4,000,000 £5,000,000 - Variance £478,753 £859,035 £858,118
- Volume Variance £478,753 £423,096 £430,816 -£7,719 £812,050 59% - Price Variance £0 £435,963 £427,326 £8,637 £568,233 41%
3.6 As SSF members are fully aware, we have little control over spend on these placements as they result from needs outlined in EHCPs. Work is ongoing with increasing our local provision but there is no quick solution. However, there remains a collective duty to prevent children and young people having to be educated outside of the North Somerset.
3.7 As reported to SSF at the meeting in January there is a Framework in place for Independent and Non-Maintained Special Schools, known as the (INMSS) Framework. There are still plans for a presentation from the relevant officers at the June SSF meeting and questions in advance based on the information shared in January are still invited.
3.8 Top up Funding, Line 25 is projecting an overspend of nearly £806k. As previously reported to SSF the overspend relates partly to an increase in the number of children in receipt of TUF in our own maintained special schools (e.g. place increases at Westhaven) and partly to top-up funding paid to out of area maintained special schools. Whilst all is done to prevent children and young people having to attend schools outside of North Somerset it is not possible when it is judged that needs can be met outside and or we have insufficient places currently within North Somerset. Increasing capacity in our own maintained schools is an effective way of mitigating even higher costs in independent non-maintained schools. The new resource base places in 2020-21 will help along with the planned SEMH School and changes at Baytree but these will not materialise until 2022. As a result of the sustained increases in demand for specialist provision, we will also be looking at possibilities for further expansions at Westhaven and Ravenswood maintained special schools. It was hoped that the proposed new early intervention and engagement programme should lead to a reducing number of children requiring placements outside of mainstream schools but this may now not occur as envisaged due to the block transfer decision by the Secretary of State. This is discussed further in paragraph 3.39.
3.9 Children Missing Education, Line 29 is still projecting an overspend of £104k this is due to the number of exclusions and the cost of providing education when there are no places available in our existing schools.
3.10 As summarised in the table below, the overall estimated in-year overspend on the DSG is projected to be £2.26m. This would lead to a total DSG deficit of £4.13m at
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the end of the 2019/20 financial year. This will be discussed when the DfE visit at the end of March.
Dedicated Schools Grant Balance
Area £000s £000s
Brought Forward deficit 2,376 Deficit recovery from DSG (500) In-year variances: - Out of Authority Placements 866 - Top Up Funding 806 - SEN Equipment, Therapies and Assessments 217 - Special School Place Funding 162 - Other Intensive Support for Vulnerable Learners 134 - Speech and Language Support Assistants - Support 69 Services Education contract (net costs of decommissioning service) - Other 2
Sum of in-year variances 2,256
Deficit to carry forward 4,132
3.11 This is the last monitor before the financial year end that SSF will receive due to the next meeting being June. The year-end position is expected to be in line with the monitors reported to date.
Children’s services element of the Council’s Budget for People and Communities
3.12 The overall year end position for Children’s Services funded by the Council’s general fund is net expenditure of £30.351m compared to a budgeted amount of £28.946m, giving a projected overspend of £1.405m (4.9%). This position represents a small improvement when compared with the month 8 position reported to the Council’s Executive and compares well against an overspend of £1.844m in 2018/19.
3.13 Some significant growth was applied to the Children’s Services budgets in 2019/20 and this has partly closed the gap between the budget and the demand for placements for looked after children. However, some growth in numbers and costs is now beginning to materialise. In addition, historic cost pressures continue in other areas such as adoptions, children’s centres and early years nursery provision, legal costs, support to families with disabled children and education related services.
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control. Some mitigation has been achieved by controlling expenditure on staffing. It is also important to note that these pressures have been taken into account as part of the 2020/21 budget setting process and this is discussed more in paragraph3.13.
P9 Change Variance from P8 £k £k Placements for looked after children 451 -6 Adoption Inter Agency Fees 289 0 Children’s Centres and Early Years Provision 182 32 Legal Costs (children looked after) 225 100 Prior Year Unidentified MTFP Savings 100 0 Somerset Education Services Contract 73 0 Disabled Children’s Services 63 33 Capita One SIMS Licences Contract 46 -13 Leaving Care Support 5 -94 Other -29 -88 Total 1,405 -35
School budget 2020-21
Strategic overview and executive summary
3.15 The DfE have issued provisional allocations for the various blocks of the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) according to the national funding formula. These allocations are now, in the main, based on October 2019 data.
3.16 Details of the national funding formula can be accessed using the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for- schools-and-high-needs-2020-to-2021
3.17 This link provides access to a range of information including:
3.17.1 National Funding Formula summary table 2020 to 2021 3.17.2 Impact of the schools NFF, 2020 to 2021 3.17.3 Impact of the high needs NFF,2020 to 2021 3.17.4 Impact of the central services block NFF, 2020 to 2021 3.17.5 Technical notes for the operation of each of the blocks above
3.18 The DfE also provides operational guidance on the distribution of funding to schools which provides useful information on the makeup of the formula:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pre-16-schools-funding-local- authority-guidance-for-2020-to-2021
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3.19 On the 9 September 2019, the Secretary of State for Education provided a statement to Parliament on schools funding. This can be read here:
https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers- statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-09-09/HCWS1828/
3.20 This statement confirmed that, in the main, the 2020-21 funding formula will remain as 2019-20. With the following main exceptions that are applicable for schools in North Somerset:
3.21 Increasing the minimum per pupil level to £5,000 for secondary schools and to £3,750 for primary schools.
3.22 The funding floor will be set at 1.84% per pupil for the NFF elements
3.23 There is no cap on gains, where there has been in 2018-19 and 2019-20
3.24 Within this statement, confirmation was also provided that local authorities will continue to have discretion over local formulae in 2020-21, “however, as a first step towards hardening the formula, from 2020-21 the government will make the use of the national minimum per pupil funding levels, at the values in the school NFF, compulsory for local authorities to use in their own funding formulae”
3.25 In the announcements ahead of 2020-21, the headline was that funding will rise by £2.6 billion for schools and high needs. However, please note that statements refer to the national allocation of funding to LAs through the DSG. The actual impact on individual schools in North Somerset has been determined locally by the decisions made following consultation.
3.26 It remains the government’s long-term intention that schools’ budgets should be set on the basis of a single, national formula (a ‘hard’ national funding formula) as highlighted in 3.24. The ‘hard’ implementation of the national funding formula requires primary legislation and the DfE will not comment on the timescales on this any further, other than it will not be before 2021-22.
3.27 Under the current or ‘soft’ system, the DfE use the national funding formula to set notional budgets for each school. These are aggregated to give the total schools block. You can see the notional budget for each school, and the aggregated schools block funding for each local authority using the link provided in paragraph 3.16. For now, local authorities continue to set some local formula to distribute their schools block funding, in consultation with their local schools and their schools forum.
3.28 Local authorities then distribute their schools block allocation between maintained schools and academies and, although it will be a local decision, the DfE are continuing to adjust the rules governing the setting of local formulae so that the national formula can be more closely mirrored.
3.29 The schools block became ring-fenced in 2018-19 and this continues in 2020-21, which means that the vast majority of schools block funding allocated to local authorities must be passed directly to schools. Local authorities have limited
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flexibility to transfer funding to other areas, such as high needs, where these best match local circumstances. Transfers of up to 0.5% can be approved by the schools forum and do not require any additional approval from the Secretary of State. Transfers in excess of 0.5% or transfers not approved by the Schools Forum must approved by the Secretary of State.
3.30 Movements from the schools block approved for 2019-20 were not “pre-approved” for 2020-21. This means that any movement over 0.5% even with SSF approval had to be applied for, via a disapplication to the Secretary of State for Education.
3.31 Pupil Premium plus - Stage one of the national funding formula consultation detailed how it would target support for looked after children and children who were previously looked after through the pupil premium plus, rather than include a looked after children factor in that national funding formula. The value of the total national amount spent through the looked after children (LAC) factors in local formulae in 2017-18 has been transferred from the DSG to the pupil premium. The pupil premium plus rate was increased in April 2018 to £2,300 and remained the same for 2019-20. The rate will be for 2020-21 has been increased to £2,345.
3.32 The Department for Education also announced that the pupil premium rate will increase from April by £25 for primary pupils (from £1,320 to £1,345) and £20 for secondary pupils (from £935 to £955).
3.33 With the service premium, for every pupil with a parent serving in the forces or who is retired on a Ministry of Defence pension increasing from £300 to £310.
3.34 The final value of the DSG for 2020-21 is not yet known. It will depend on the actual take up of the free entitlement by 2, 3 & 4 year olds.
The Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG)
3.35 At the SSF meeting on 15th January it was not possible to table a draft schools budget for 2020-21 due to not having received a response to our 0.7% disapplication request
3.36 We received our rejection of our 0.7% disapplication request in writing from the Secretary of State during the evening of Wednesday 15th January 2020. The main reason being that the High Needs uplift of 9.01% is viewed as being sufficient to cover the amount we wished to transfer.
3.37 The 0.5% block movement has approval and so this has been implemented via the APT submitted and individual school budget allocations will have been issued by the deadline date of the end of February.
3.38 This decision means that the officers’ recommendation is that SSF agree that the 0.2% which was not approved is returned to schools allocated on the basis of a flat rate per pupil, the calculation being shown in Appendix D.
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3.39 The distribution means that the intervention work that was due to be funded by the additional 0.2% cannot progress as envisaged. Suggestions from SSF members on how this could progress can discussed at the meeting on 4 March.
3.40 It should also be noted that the DSG for 2020-21 does not include an explicit allowance for inflationary pressures. This has been the case for several years now. The DfE continues to expect schools and LAs to make efficiency savings elsewhere within their budget to meet these pressures.
Delegated funding
3.41 Schools - The delegated funding budget for schools has been calculated on the basis on the national funding formula, as proposed following consultation with schools. This has then been adjusted by the decisions made by the SSF at their subsequent meetings to set a balanced budget.
3.42 Appendix E displays: • the 2019-20 budget, • the 2019-20 forecast outturn, • the 2019-20 projected variance, • the 2020-21 budget, • the 2020-21 budget compared with 2019-20 forecast outturn and the 2019-20 budget compared with the 2019-20 budget.
3.43 In the main the budgets for 2020-21 only have minor changes compared to the 2019- 20 budget. The detail which follows below concentrates on the areas highlighted in yellow on in Appendix E.
3.44 Delegated Place Funding – this budget place funds the places in maintained special schools, alternative provision and resource bases. The budget has been set based on projections of placements in 2020/21.
3.45 Top up Funding - This budget provides top up funding for individual children and young people that schools and other providers receive on top of their delegated budget shares.
3.46 These arrangements apply to all settings i.e. mainstream schools, special schools, resource bases, PRU’s, early years settings, FE colleges, independent specialist providers and non- maintained special schools.
3.47 The increase to this budget reflects the 1.84% increase to the Special School rates and the VLC block funded amount, plus an estimate of the likely spend in 2020/21 based on the current forecast for 2019/20.
3.48 SEN Equipment and other expenses - This budget has been increased based on actual spend and it will be split into Equipment and Therapies on the accounting system, to ensure increased transparency.
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young people in North Somerset. The reduction in the budget of between 2019-20 and 2020-21 of £83k is due to the cessation of the speech and language (SALT and SALSA) elements of the contract in place with Somerset
3.50 Out of Authority placements – Members of the Forum will note that this budget has been reduced when compared with both the 2019/20 budget and the 2019/20 forecast spend. The Council is required by statute to set a balanced budget, i.e. one where spend is in line with resources, even though we are aware that spend will exceed available funding. In order to do this, officers have taken a deliberate decision to set all elements of the high needs budget to match largely with expected demand, all except the budget for Out of Area placements (which essentially remains as a balancing budget). This budget currently funds placements for children and young people with high level needs in out of authority independent schools and non- maintained special schools and those that are admitted to independent hospital provision. It meets the needs of these children and young people where there is no available local provision to match need. Whilst the budget is set at £4.5m, we are aware that the increase in demand for specialist provision is likely to lead to an overspend of between £3m and £4m, although increasing in area special school places could partly mitigate this.
3.51 Support and advice to SSF/Schools – this has been reduced to reflect the cessation in 2020-21 of the historical commitment in relation to dark fibre with the South West Grid for Learning and this historic commitment is why our central services block allocation has also been reduced.
3.52 Contingencies - The contingencies budget, which sits within the schools block, provides funding to be allocated during the financial year for a few areas; infant class size funding (not been needed for many years), exceptional pupil growth for new and existing schools and for allocations to schools with a disproportionate number of high needs pupils (targeted support).
3.53 The targeted support element of this budget is remaining at £279k as agreed via consultation and SSF.
3.54 All calculations in respect of exceptional growth have been completed with what is known currently.
3.55 The 0.5% (£650k) transfer from the schools block to the high needs block will support spending across all areas of the high needs block and will prevent the deficit from increasing further than it otherwise would without the transfer.
3.56 Conditions relating to DSG overspends and deficits, there is no formal requirement in 2020-21 to submit a deficit recovery plan. This was detailed in the 30 January 2020 Conditions of Grant:
5.2 Further conditions relating to DSG overspends and deficits Any local authority that has an overall deficit on its DSG account at the end of the 2019 to 2020 financial year, or whose DSG surplus has substantially reduced during the year, must co- operate with the Department for Education (DfE) in handling that situation. In particular, the local authority must:
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• Provide information as and when requested by the department about its plans for managing its DSG account in the 2020 to 2021 financial year and subsequently. • Provide information as and when requested by the department about pressures and potential savings on its high needs budget. • Meet with officials of the department as and when they request to discuss the local authority’s plans and financial situation. • Keep the schools forum regularly updated about the local authority’s DSG account and plans for handling it, including high needs pressures and potential savings. The Secretary of State reserves the right to impose more specific conditions of grant on individual local authorities that have an overall deficit on their DSG account, where he believes that they are not taking suf3ficient action to address the situation
3.57 We will of course be able to comply with all of the bullet points above as we already are and will continue to do so.
3.58 At the June SSF feedback from the meeting with the Department will be provided and an updated plan.
Early Years
3.59 The final funding for the early years block will be dependent on the actual take up of the free entitlement by 2, 2 & 4 year olds. With the information we have received then the 2020-21 budget is as proposed:
2020-21 Budget Based on Jan 19 numbers: PTE Hourly rate Funding Income 3&4 yr olds 4,052.28 £4.38 £10,116,923 Income 2 year olds 403.86 £5.51 £1,268,404 £11,385,327
Delegated funding: 3&4 yr olds 4,052.28 £3.95 £9,123,708 2 year olds 403.86 £5.35 £1,231,571 £10,355,279
Deprivation supplement 5% £505,846.16
Total Delegated Funding issued to providers £10,861,126
Centrally retained: Top up funded by EY block - issued to providers £298,101 Early years services £127,501 Contribution to admin and management, includes the EY Funding system £75,924 4.41% £501,526
. £11,362,652 Difference/ Contingency £22,675
3.60 The hourly rate to providers for 2 year olds will be £5.35 an annual amount if all 570 hours are taken up by the child of £3,050.
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3.61 The hourly rate to providers for 3 & 4 year olds will be £3.95 and annual amount of £2,252 if the 570 universal hours are all accessed by the child and if the child is able to have 1,140 hours then the annual amount is £4,503. As a comparator the AWPU for primary pupil is £3,750.
3.62 The percentage amount held centrally is 1.79% which is much lower than the allowed 5%. £203,425 this contributes £127,501 to the Early Years and Children’s Centre Service and £75,924 for the funding hub and Education Funding Team.
The impact of the Council’s budget for 2020-21
3.63 There has always been a close working relationship between the Council and the Strategic Schools Forum in North Somerset. This had led to a strong partnership, shared goals and the shared resourcing of some areas of work.
3.64 The decisions made by the Council, in relation to how resources are prioritised, have implications for children and young people, schools, early years providers and other education providers. The decisions made by the SSF equally have an impact within the Council.
3.65 The Council set its budget at its meeting on 18 February; this followed consideration of the draft budget by the Executive at its meetings on 7 January and 5 February.
3.66 The main items of budget growth and savings for 2020/21 are shown in the table below. It is worth noting in particular the additional resources that are being planned to deal with the significant and sustained increase in the demand for Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) assessments. Members of the SSF will be aware of the impact of the increase in number of children with EHCPs is having on the demand for specialist placements and the knock-on impact on the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG).
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NORTH SOMERSET COUNCIL - BUDGET SETTING 2020/21 MTFP Growth Allocations; I1 - Pay award inflation and pension changes 237,000 - Re-base children's services – Placements for children looked G2 650,000 after - Re-base children's services - various historic budget G3 925,000 pressures G4 - Re-base children's services – EHCPs 320,000 G12 - Improved benefits package to foster carers 70,000 G13 - Investment in early intervention and prevention 105,000 G14 - Ofsted transformation support 20,000 Sub total re Growth 2,377,000
MTFP Savings Proposals; S1 - Inflation increase on fees and charges budgets -13,000 PCC1 - Completion of more Parenting Assessments in-house -5,000 PCC2 - Children's Continuing Care / Health Contributions -125,000 PCC3 - Children's Residential Step Down -200,000 - Review of the process and support mechanisms for in-house PCC5 -60,000 foster carers to improve recruitment and retention -403,000
3.67 At this stage, it is anticipated that this budget growth will go a long way to close the budget gap and provide a more robust position for 2020/21. However, risks remain, and the principal risks are listed below:
• Delivery of savings plans, particular in relation to the residential step down programme and generating additional contributions from the CCG in relation to the health needs of children with complex needs • The volatility associated with the numbers and costs of placements for children looked after • The increase in demand for Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) assessments and our ability to secure education psychology input into these assessments • Our ability to recruit experienced social workers other than via agency
3.68 The reports also refer to the significant risks and challenges associated with the budget funded by the DSG, particularly referencing the continuing pressures on High Needs
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4. CONSULTATION
The report has been developed through consultation with the relevant stakeholders, officers and with each of the departmental management teams. At this stage, there is no opportunity or need to consult any further.
5. FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
The financial implications are included throughout the report
6. RISK MANAGEMENT
This report discusses the risks and opportunities in relation to the revenue budget. As such, risks are included throughout the report
7. EQUALITY IMPLICATIONS
7.1 The 2018-19 and the 2019-20 school budgets have considered the equality implications. The EIA has been subject to consultation and discussion with a wide range of stakeholder groups to ensure all risks have been identified and understood. At this stage, there are no proposals / decisions that require consideration of impacts that are not covered via existing EIA’s.
7.2 The Equalities Impact Assessments for Children’s Services are available on the Councils website.
8. CORPORATE IMPLICATIONS
The schools budget monitoring process is an important part of the Council’s overall corporate governance and financial management arrangements. There are no specific corporate implications other than those already identified throughout the report.
9. OPTIONS CONSIDERED
The report has mix of decision making and for information only; options have included where appropriate.
AUTHOR
Emma Whitehead, Education Funding Manager [email protected] 01934 426407
BACKGROUND PAPERS Previous papers to the SSF including the budget setting reports for 2019-20. - 14
DEDICATED SCHOOLS GRANT MONITORING 2019/20 - As at 31st DECEMBER 2019 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Cost Centre Budget description Original Budget Final Budget Movements Budget Expenditure Projected Variance 2019/20 2019/20 2019/20 To Date Outturn for year £ £ £ £ £ £ 1 UNIVERSAL PROVISION AND EARLY INTERVENTION 2 Delegated Funding Delegated Funding 121,112,450 (1,355,607) 119,756,843 10,769,890 119,756,843 0 3 Less Academy Recoupment Less Academy Funding (108,627,097) (233,856) (108,860,953) 0 (108,860,953) 0 4 Total Delegated Funding 12,485,353 (1,589,463) 10,895,890 10,769,890 10,895,890 0 5 De-delegations De-delegations 0 276,645 276,645 190,776 276,645 0 6 EPC001-XPS58 Statutory Service Charge 0 35,958 35,958 0 38,054 2,096 7 EBZ001/4/5/7 Provision for 2, 3 and 4 year olds 10,245,545 544,000 10,789,545 7,511,954 10,789,545 0 8 EES001 Retained Services 443,273 0 443,273 332,455 443,273 0 9 Total Universal Provision and Early Intervention 23,174,171 (732,860) 22,441,311 18,805,075 22,443,407 2,096
10 INTENSIVE SUPPORT FOR VULNERABLE LEARNERS 11 EBX320 Inclusion Advisory Team 8,750 (1,050) 7,700 3,150 7,700 0 12 EBX934 Travellers Service 93,167 0 93,167 46,651 93,167 0 13 EBX935 Sensory Impairment - Joint Arrangement 248,440 0 248,440 65,353 248,440 0 14 EBY999 Psychology Service 72,910 0 72,910 54,683 72,910 0 15 EBY999 Portage 66,840 0 66,840 50,130 66,840 0 16 EBY999 VLS Management 67,990 40,826 108,816 80,012 108,816 0 17 EES002 Virtual Schools 137,743 (291) 137,452 79,673 137,452 0 18 EES003 Safeguarding 98,951 (39,485) 59,466 53,100 59,466 0 19 EES007/EBX801 SALT & SALSA 103,036 0 103,036 171,641 171,642 68,606 20 Total Vulnerable learners service 897,827 0 897,827 604,394 966,433 68,606
21 EEH803 Delegated Place Funding 3,696,914 57,000 3,753,914 3,685,999 3,915,498 161,584 22 EBW002 SEN equipment & Other costs 244,999 0 244,999 392,566 462,288 217,289 23 EBW999 Out of Authority Placements 5,000,000 0 5,000,000 4,812,209 5,865,863 865,863 24 EBZ003 Early Years Commissioned Services 170,906 0 170,906 125,659 170,906 (0) 25 EES010 Top-up Funding 11,415,005 0 11,415,005 8,720,539 12,221,015 806,011 26 EEH805 Truro Pathways (Ex Westhaven Horizons) 220,376 0 220,376 232,876 232,876 12,500 27 EEH805 School Placement Support Team (Ex Westhaven Phoenix) 120,037 0 120,037 90,072 120,096 59 28 EBX300 Elective home educated children 118,333 (100,000) 18,333 13,750 18,333 (0) 29 EBX312 Out of school Panel for CME 0 100,000 100,000 133,896 204,086 104,086 30 EBX321 Business Rates and Rent for AP 110,000 0 110,000 121,751 127,751 17,751 31 EBX325 Commissioned tuition service 540,000 0 540,000 540,000 540,000 0 32 EBX800 Enhanced Provision 94,409 0 94,409 70,807 94,409 0 33 Total Other Intensive Support for vulnerable learners 21,730,979 57,000 21,787,979 18,940,123 23,973,122 2,185,143
34 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND CENTRALLY ADMINISTERED 35 EEN700 Strategic Schools Forum 7,841 0 7,841 3,874 7,841 0 36 EEN399 Support and advice for SSF 150,588 0 150,588 40,988 150,588 (0) 37 EEN199 Licences and Subscriptions 148,236 1 148,237 147,235 147,235 (1,002) 38 EBZ011 Early Years Administration 79,953 0 79,953 59,965 79,954 1 39 EEN410 Criminal Record Bureau 0 0 0 (308) 0 0 40 EEN599 Pupil Admissions Section 229,699 0 229,699 122,275 229,699 (0) 41 EES006 Costs of Prudential Borrowing 632,704 0 632,704 632,703 632,703 (1) 42 EEN101 Edctn - Health and Safety 0 0 0 1,348 1,349 1,349 43 EPC001-XIS06 Contingencies 685,907 0 685,907 472,996 685,907 0 44 EPC001-ZRG02 Contingency for Unallocated DSG 500,000 0 500,000 0 500,000 0 45 Total Strategic management and centrally administered 2,434,929 1 2,434,930 1,481,075 2,435,276 346
46 TOTAL SCHOOLS EXPENDITURE BUDGET 48,237,906 (675,859) 47,562,047 39,830,667 49,818,238 2,256,191
47 DEDICATED SCHOOLS GRANT (47,552,000) (10,047) (47,562,047) (36,684,306) (47,562,047) 0 48 BALANCE 685,906 (685,906) (0) 3,146,361 2,256,191 2,256,191
OTHER GRANTS/INCOME (NON DSG) EXPENDITURE 49 EES004/EPF001/ESP001 Pupil Premium Grant [DfE] 0 2,275,826 2,275,826 730,430 2,275,826 0 50 EPF001/ESP001-XIS09 Teachers Pay Grant [DfE] 0 129,456 129,456 489,700 489,700 360,244 51 EPF001/ESP001-XIS17 Other DFE Grants - Summer Schools/Year 7 0 327,641 327,641 347,188 347,188 19,547 52 EPF001/ESP001-DAA05 Universal Infant Free School Meals 0 2,210,844 2,210,844 430,355 2,210,844 0 53 EEN408/EEN409/EG2101 Other Non DSG 0 0 0 28,971 28,971 28,971 54 TOTAL EXPENDITURE TOTAL EXPENDITURE 0 4,943,767 4,943,767 2,026,645 5,352,529 408,762
55 GRANT FUNDING 56 EDSG01-GTI03 Pupil Premium Grant [DfE] (2,275,826) 0 (2,275,826) (756,656) (2,275,826) 0 57 EDSG01-GTI04 Teachers Pay Grant [DfE] 0 (129,456) (129,456) (499,969) (499,969) (370,513) 58 EDSG01-GTI07 Other DFE Grants - Summer Schools/Year 7 (586,486) 258,845 (327,641) (326,867) (327,641) 0 59 EDSG01-GTI08 Universal Infant Free School Meals (2,210,844) 0 (2,210,844) (430,358) (2,210,844) 0 60 EDSG01-NA Other 4,387,250 (4,387,250) 0 0 (38,249) (38,249) 61 TOTAL GRANT FUNDING (685,906) (4,257,861) (4,943,767) (2,013,850) (5,352,529) (408,762) 62 BALANCE (685,906) 685,906 0 12,795 0 0 63 BALANCE DSG AND OTHER GRANTS (0) 0 (0) 3,159,155 2,256,191 2,256,191 Appendix B Mainstream Schools, Academies & NSETC NCY 10 pupils
TUF Band Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Average FTE A1 64 64 64 64 64 53 53 51 53 53 53 52 57.33 A2 16.6 16.6 16.6 16.6 16.6 21.2 20.2 20.2 20.2 20.2 20.2 20.2 18.78 A3 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2.58 B1 105 106 106 105 105 121 121 121 130 127 127 127 116.75 B2 53 51 51 51 51 68 67 67 78 77 77 77 64 B3 3 3 3 3 3 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 4.5 C1 71 70 70 70 70 90 89 88 97 97 97 97 83.83 C2 66.6 64.6 61.6 60.6 60.6 78.6 76.6 74.6 85.6 84.6 84.6 84.6 73.6 C3 6 6 6 6 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 7.17 C4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.58 DH1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 DH2 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.04 DH3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 DV1 9 9 9 9 9 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 6.08 DV2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.58 DV3 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 4.17 DV4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.58 E1 37 37 37 38 38 46 46 46 47 47 47 47 42.75 E2 20 19 19 20 20 23 23 23 24 24 24 24 21.92 E3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 OLA 6 6 6 6 6 7 8 8 9 9 9 9 7.42 Bespoke Packages 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 2.75 Grand Total 474.6 469.6 466.6 466.6 466.6 548.3 544.3 539.3 586.3 581.3 581.3 580.3 525.41 Totals at 20-11-19 484.6 478.6 477.6 477.6 477.6 556.3 554.3 553.3 549.3 549.3 549.3 548.3 521.33 Difference inc / dec (10) (9) (11) (11) (11) (8) (10) (14) 37 32 32 32 4.08 £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Average TUF Band Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Total Funding spend per pupil A1 40,107 40,107 40,107 40,107 40,107 19,213 19,213 18,488 19,213 19,213 19,213 18,850 333,934 5,825 A2 14,691 14,691 14,691 14,691 14,691 10,121 9,644 9,644 9,644 9,644 9,644 9,644 141,440 7,531 A3 3,509 3,509 3,509 3,509 3,509 2,712 2,712 2,712 2,712 2,712 2,712 2,712 36,530 14,159 B1 56,044 56,578 56,578 56,044 56,044 28,738 28,738 28,738 30,875 30,163 30,163 30,163 488,861 4,187 B2 46,905 45,135 45,135 45,135 45,135 39,831 39,245 39,245 45,689 45,103 45,103 45,103 526,763 8,231 B3 5,264 5,264 5,264 5,264 5,264 5,298 5,298 5,298 6,357 6,357 6,357 6,357 67,642 15,032 C1 37,896 37,363 37,363 37,363 37,363 21,375 21,138 20,900 23,038 23,038 23,038 23,038 342,909 4,091 C2 58,941 57,171 54,516 53,631 53,631 45,692 44,520 43,349 49,792 49,206 49,206 49,206 608,861 8,273 C3 10,028 10,028 10,028 10,028 10,028 8,477 8,477 8,477 8,477 8,477 8,477 8,477 109,474 15,268 C4 0 0 0 0 0 1,456 1,456 1,456 1,456 1,456 1,456 1,456 10,192 17,572 DH1 434 434 434 434 434 308 308 308 308 308 308 308 4,326 2,163 DH2 737 737 737 737 737 2,084 2,084 2,084 2,084 2,084 2,084 2,084 18,272 4,523 DH3 2,218 2,218 2,218 2,218 2,218 2,650 2,650 2,650 2,650 2,650 2,650 2,650 29,637 9,879 DV1 1,951 1,951 1,951 1,951 1,951 617 617 617 617 617 617 617 14,071 2,314 DV2 0 0 0 0 0 463 463 463 463 463 463 463 3,242 5,589 DV3 4,840 4,840 4,840 4,840 4,840 3,533 3,533 3,533 3,533 2,650 2,650 2,650 46,285 11,100 DV4 0 0 0 0 0 1,546 1,546 1,546 1,546 1,546 1,546 1,546 10,821 18,658 E1 28,240 28,240 28,240 29,004 29,004 30,092 30,092 30,092 30,746 30,746 30,746 30,746 355,987 8,327 E2 21,478 20,404 20,404 21,478 21,478 19,755 19,755 19,755 20,614 20,614 20,614 20,614 246,966 11,267 E3 2,572 2,572 2,572 2,572 2,572 1,970 1,970 1,970 1,970 1,970 1,970 1,970 26,648 26,648 OLA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bespoke Packages 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 9,776 9,776 8,021 10,340 10,590 10,590 10,590 77,184 28,067 Additional Funding 10,115 9,963 9,963 9,963 9,963 10,016 10,016 10,199 10,199 9,907 9,907 9,907 120,119 9,240 Grand Total 347,469 342,703 340,048 340,466 340,466 265,721 263,249 259,544 282,322 279,513 279,513 279,151 3,620,164 237,942 Totals at 20-11-19 348,629 343,863 342,978 343,397 343,397 266,867 265,218 261,767 261,389 261,389 261,389 261,026 3,561,309 Difference inc / dec (1,160) (1,160) (2,930) (2,930) (2,930) (1,146) (1,969) (2,224) 20,934 18,124 18,124 18,124 58,855 Combined Specials Schools inc Alternative Provision and Resource Bases
TUF Band Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Average FTE A1 46 46 46 46 46 48 49 50 50 50 50 50 48.08 A2 38.4 38.4 37.4 37.4 37.4 36.8 40.8 40.8 38.8 38.8 38.8 38.8 38.55 A3 11 11 12 12 12 12 13 13 14 14 14 14 12.67 A4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 B1 40 39 39 39 39 35 35 34 35 34 34 34 36.42 B2 60 59 59 58 58 64 65 63 60 62 62 62 61 B3 25 25 25 25 25 27 28 29 33 33 33 33 28.42 B4 6 6 6 6 6 10 10 11 12 12 11 11 8.92 C1 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5.42 C2 66 68 72 77 77 57 65 66 71 74 75 75 70.25 C3 15 15 16 16 16 15 15 15 15 13 13 13 14.75 C4 11 11 10 10 10 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 7.25 DH2 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.54 DH3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 DV2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 DV3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1.25 DV4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 E1 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4.58 E2 13.5 13.5 13.5 13.5 13.5 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 13.79 E3 18 17 17 17 17 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 21.75 NIL 22 23 23 23 23 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 17.67 OLA 14 14 14 14 14 16 16 17 18 17 17 17 15.67 Grand Total 403.5 403.5 407.5 411.5 411.5 396.3 412.3 414.3 422.3 424.3 424.3 424.3 412.98 Totals at 20-11-19 403.5 403.5 407.5 411.5 411.5 396.3 408.3 410.3 410.3 410.3 410.3 410.3 407.8 Difference inc / dec 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 12 14 14 14 5.18 £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Average TUF Band Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Total Funding spend per pupil A1 13,493 13,493 13,493 13,493 13,493 14,080 14,373 14,667 14,667 14,667 14,667 14,667 169,251 3,520 A2 21,184 21,184 20,632 20,632 20,632 20,301 22,508 22,508 21,405 21,405 21,405 21,405 255,203 6,620 A3 15,634 15,634 17,055 17,055 17,055 17,055 18,476 18,476 19,898 19,898 19,898 19,898 216,030 17,051 A4 6,283 6,283 6,283 6,283 6,283 6,283 6,283 6,283 6,283 6,283 6,283 6,283 75,390 37,695 B1 8,017 7,816 7,816 7,816 7,816 7,015 7,015 6,814 7,015 6,814 6,814 6,814 87,584 2,405 B2 33,100 32,549 32,549 31,997 31,997 35,307 35,859 34,755 33,100 34,204 34,204 34,204 403,822 6,620 B3 35,531 35,531 35,531 35,531 35,531 38,374 39,795 41,216 46,901 46,901 46,901 46,901 484,646 17,053 B4 18,848 18,848 18,848 18,848 18,848 31,413 31,413 34,554 37,695 37,695 34,554 34,554 336,114 37,681 C1 1,203 1,203 1,203 1,203 1,203 1,002 1,002 1,002 1,002 1,002 1,002 1,002 13,027 2,404 C2 36,410 37,514 39,720 42,479 42,479 31,445 35,859 36,410 39,169 40,824 41,375 41,375 465,058 6,620 C3 20,069 20,069 21,407 21,407 21,407 20,069 20,069 20,069 20,069 17,393 17,393 17,393 236,812 16,055 C4 20,788 20,788 18,898 18,898 18,898 9,449 9,449 9,449 9,449 9,449 9,449 9,449 164,415 22,678 DH2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DH3 406 406 406 406 406 406 406 406 406 406 406 406 4,870 4,870 DV2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DV3 635 635 635 635 635 635 635 635 635 1,270 1,270 1,270 9,521 7,617 DV4 1,421 1,421 1,421 1,421 1,421 1,421 1,421 1,421 1,421 1,421 1,421 1,421 17,055 17,055 E1 1,720 1,720 1,720 1,720 1,720 2,150 2,150 2,150 2,150 2,150 2,150 2,150 23,646 5,163 E2 9,998 9,998 9,998 9,998 9,998 10,368 10,368 10,368 10,368 10,368 10,368 10,368 122,566 8,888 E3 40,290 38,052 38,052 38,052 38,052 55,958 55,958 55,958 55,958 55,958 55,958 55,958 584,204 26,860 NIL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OLA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Grand Total 285,028 283,141 285,666 287,872 287,872 302,730 313,037 317,141 327,589 328,106 325,516 325,516 3,669,214 246,855 Totals at 20-11-19 285,028 283,141 285,666 287,872 287,872 300,639 308,389 311,823 311,823 311,823 311,823 311,823 3,597,725 Difference inc / dec 0 0 0 0 0 2,090 4,648 5,318 15,765 16,282 13,693 13,693 71,489
NB Summary includes actual FTE and expenditure for the VLC but 2019-20 funding is based on 80 places @ £8,000 = £640,000 Appendix C Out of County Placements Age in the Variance Variance Actual Costs financial Category May-19 Sept-19 7.10.2019 28.10.2019 6.12.19 to 2018/19 to Prior 2018/19 year Actual Month 1 8 - 9 ASD 0 67,271 67,766 67,766 67,766 67,766 67,766 67,766 0 2 9 - 10 ASD 74,725 74,725 76,856 76,856 76,856 78,477 78,477 3,752 0 3 10 - 11 ASD 4,960 32,850 43,507 43,507 43,507 43,507 43,507 38,547 0 4 10 - 11 ASD 71,022 71,022 71,016 71,016 71,016 71,016 71,016 -6 0 5 10 - 11 ASD 87,410 87,410 89,903 89,903 89,903 89,903 89,903 2,493 0 6 10 - 11 ASD 0 0 7,410 7,410 7,410 12,350 17,499 17,499 5,149 7 10 - 11 ASD 0 0 0 18,514 18,514 19,560 9,780 9,780 -9,780 8 10 - 11 ASD 0 0 0 20,539 20,539 20,539 20,539 20,539 0 9 11 - 12 ASD 24,602 24,390 24,388 24,388 24,388 24,388 24,388 -214 0 10 12 - 13 ASD 0 62,947 59,667 59,667 59,667 59,667 59,667 59,667 0 11 13 - 14 ASD 29,291 29,291 30,126 30,126 30,126 30,126 30,126 835 0 12 14 - 15 ASD 19,670 19,755 19,753 19,753 19,753 19,753 19,753 83 0 13 14 - 15 ASD 19,829 24,786 25,493 25,493 25,493 25,493 25,493 5,664 0 14 14 - 15 ASD 40,043 40,043 41,185 41,185 41,185 41,185 41,185 1,142 0 15 14 - 15 ASD 19,075 76,301 78,477 78,477 78,477 78,477 78,477 59,402 0 16 16 - 17 ASD 15,782 0 0 0 0 0 0 -15,782 0 17 16 - 17 ASD 16,545 0 0 0 0 0 0 -16,545 0 18 16 - 17 ASD 74,725 31,135 31,848 31,848 31,848 31,848 31,848 -42,877 0 19 16 - 17 ASD 0 0 98,391 99,334 95,535 95,535 95,535 95,535 0 20 16 - 17 ASD 24,095 24,095 10,072 10,072 10,072 10,270 10,270 -13,825 0 21 16 - 17 ASD 20,543 20,543 8,587 8,587 8,587 8,755 8,755 -11,788 0 22 17 - 18 ASD 0 10,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 17 - 18 ASD 30,075 30,075 12,571 12,571 12,571 12,818 12,818 -17,257 0 24 18 - 19 ASD 186,432 186,432 186,417 186,417 186,417 186,417 186,417 -15 0 25 18 - 19 ASD 22,243 25,673 10,731 10,731 10,731 8,753 8,753 -13,489 0 26 18 - 19 ASD 0 1,259 0 0 0 -875 -875 -875 0 27 18 - 19 ASD -716 0 0 0 0 0 0 716 0 28 18 - 19 ASD 46,765 54,798 55,617 55,617 55,617 18,266 18,266 -28,499 0 29 18 - 19 ASD 21,083 0 0 0 0 0 0 -21,083 0 30 19 - 20 ASD 28,616 24,777 10,357 10,357 10,357 10,560 10,560 -18,056 0 31 19 - 20 ASD 0 1,512 -475 -475 -475 -475 -475 -475 0 32 19 - 20 ASD 41,344 4,769 4,769 4,769 4,769 4,769 4,769 -36,575 0 33 19 - 20 ASD 0 25,000 24,998 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 19 - 20 ASD 25,986 25,000 24,998 30,797 41,997 41,997 41,997 16,010 0 35 19 - 20 ASD 0 2,785 -298 -298 -298 -1,200 -1,200 -1,200 0 36 18 - 19 ASD 0 0 37,369 37,369 37,369 37,369 37,369 37,369 0 37 18 - 19 ASD 3,366 3,366 3,534 3,534 3,534 3,534 3,534 168 0 38 19 - 20 ASD 31,613 54,375 54,371 54,371 54,371 54,371 54,371 22,758 0 39 19 - 20 ASD 31,613 54,375 54,371 54,371 54,371 54,371 54,371 22,758 0 40 19 - 20 ASD 19,608 0 0 0 0 15,141 15,141 -4,466 0 41 20 - 21 ASD 21,829 20,010 21,828 21,828 21,828 9,210 9,210 -12,619 0 42 19 - 20 ASD 20,439 0 0 0 0 0 0 -20,439 0 43 20 - 21 ASD 44,615 0 14,236 14,236 14,236 14,236 14,236 -30,379 0 44 20 - 21 ASD 0 0 0 0 14,623 14,623 14,623 14,623 0 45 20 - 21 ASD 72,720 53,816 72,714 72,714 72,714 72,714 72,714 -6 0 46 21 - 22 ASD 27,606 0 0 0 0 0 0 -27,606 0 47 21 - 22 ASD 0 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 0 0 0 0 48 15 - 16 ASD & SLD 72,987 0 0 0 0 0 0 -72,987 0 49 15 - 16 ASD 41,854 124,476 124,807 124,807 124,807 124,807 124,807 82,953 0 50 7 - 8 HI 0 55,809 65,073 65,073 54,074 54,074 54,074 54,074 0 51 9 - 10 HI 2,915 2,915 2,915 2,915 2,915 2,915 2,915 -0 0 52 11 - 12 HI 47,549 49,867 49,863 49,863 49,863 49,863 49,863 2,314 0 53 13 - 14 HI 48,995 30,702 30,699 30,699 30,699 30,699 43,264 -5,730 12,565 54 14 - 15 HI 37,955 37,955 37,952 37,952 37,952 37,997 37,997 42 0 55 15 - 16 HI 37,955 37,955 37,952 37,952 37,952 37,952 37,952 -3 0 56 15 - 16 HI 37,955 44,799 44,795 44,795 44,795 51,151 51,151 13,196 0 57 20 - 21 HI 9,342 0 0 0 0 0 0 -9,342 0 58 8 - 9 MLD 5,767 19,500 19,498 19,498 19,498 19,498 19,498 13,732 0 59 10 - 11 MLD 0 0 11,564 11,564 11,564 11,564 11,564 11,564 0 60 12 - 13 MLD 11,010 11,109 11,292 11,292 11,292 11,292 11,292 282 0 61 13 - 14 MLD 35,884 36,207 36,806 36,806 36,806 36,806 36,806 922 0 62 13 - 14 MLD 19,270 20,209 20,544 20,544 20,544 27,638 27,638 8,368 0 63 15 - 16 MLD 22,246 0 0 0 0 0 0 -22,246 0 64 16 - 17 MLD 29,292 29,292 30,127 30,127 30,127 30,127 30,127 835 0 65 17 - 18 MLD 35,731 36,054 36,757 36,757 36,757 36,757 36,757 1,026 0 66 18 - 19 MLD 8,560 0 0 0 0 0 0 -8,560 0 67 18 - 19 MLD 34,554 0 0 0 0 0 0 -34,554 0 68 19 - 20 MLD 6,135 0 0 0 0 0 0 -6,135 0 69 19 - 20 MLD 18,750 0 0 0 0 0 0 -18,750 0 70 22 - 23 MLD 16,961 0 0 0 0 0 0 -16,961 0 71 17 - 18 PMLD 0 0 51,201 51,201 51,201 68,010 68,010 68,010 0 72 19 - 20 PMLD 0 0 37,881 37,881 37,881 41,166 41,166 41,166 0 73 19 - 20 PMLD 0 0 53,253 53,253 53,253 46,708 46,708 46,708 0 74 6 - 7 SEMH 0 70,000 64,476 64,476 64,476 68,047 68,047 68,047 0 75 7 - 8 SEMH 0 81,482 81,476 81,476 81,476 81,476 81,476 81,476 0 76 7 - 8 SEMH 0 0 39,961 39,961 39,961 39,961 39,961 39,961 0 77 9 - 10 SEMH 5,740 50,405 51,236 51,236 51,236 51,236 51,236 45,496 0 78 9 - 10 SEMH 0 0 32,368 32,368 32,368 37,082 37,081 37,081 -0 79 9 - 10 SEMH 20,830 21,891 -13,656 -13,656 -13,656 -6,828 -6,828 -27,658 0 80 10 - 11 SEMH 71,022 71,022 71,016 71,016 71,016 71,016 71,016 -6 0 81 10 - 11 SEMH 13,941 64,230 66,062 66,062 66,062 66,062 66,062 52,121 0 82 10 - 11 SEMH 29,804 54,798 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 25,814 0 83 10 - 11 SEMH 51,653 51,652 51,648 51,648 51,648 51,648 51,648 -5 0 84 10 - 11 SEMH 31,246 54,798 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 24,372 0 85 10 - 11 SEMH 0 500 12,407 12,407 0 500 500 500 0 86 10 - 11 SEMH 1,759 63,982 66,233 66,233 66,233 66,233 66,233 64,473 0 87 11 - 12 SEMH 27,003 27,003 27,003 0 88 11 - 12 SEMH 0 0 0 0 31,077 31,077 31,077 31,077 0 89 11 - 12 SEMH 0 35,042 35,039 35,039 35,039 35,039 35,039 35,039 0 90 11 - 12 SEMH 0 0 32,368 32,368 32,368 37,082 37,081 37,081 -0 91 11 - 12 SEMH 8,431 54,798 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 47,187 0 92 12 - 13 SEMH 54,529 54,798 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 1,088 0 93 14 - 15 SEMH 26,937 0 5,100 5,100 5,100 45,635 36,422 9,485 -9,213 94 12 - 13 SEMH 0 0 37,470 37,470 37,470 37,470 37,470 37,470 0 95 12 - 13 SEMH 0 0 40,755 40,755 40,755 40,755 40,755 40,755 0 96 12 - 13 SEMH 29,804 54,798 55,617 55,617 64,895 64,895 64,895 35,091 0 97 13 - 14 SEMH 16,071 0 0 0 0 0 0 -16,071 0 98 13 - 14 SEMH 5,209 0 0 0 0 0 0 -5,209 0 99 13 - 14 SEMH 16,928 0 0 0 0 0 0 -16,928 0 100 13 - 14 SEMH 8,651 65,754 65,749 65,749 65,749 65,749 65,749 57,098 0 101 13 - 14 SEMH 30,346 30,346 31,211 31,211 31,211 31,211 31,211 865 0 102 13 - 14 SEMH 25,089 26,292 27,042 27,042 27,042 27,042 27,042 1,952 0 103 13 - 14 SEMH 54,529 54,798 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 1,088 0 104 13 - 14 SEMH 5,621 0 0 0 0 0 0 -5,621 0 105 13 - 14 SEMH 0 66,690 61,583 61,583 63,162 65,664 65,664 65,664 0 106 13 - 14 SEMH 22,781 0 0 0 0 0 0 -22,781 0 107 13 - 14 SEMH 34,803 54,798 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 20,815 0 108 13 - 14 SEMH 48,470 54,798 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 7,148 0 109 13 - 14 SEMH 0 0 0 43,783 43,783 52,667 74,090 74,090 21,422 110 14 - 15 SEMH 10,637 10,637 10,456 10,456 5,085 5,187 5,187 -5,450 0 111 14 - 15 SEMH 0 0 32,368 32,368 32,368 32,368 30,088 30,088 -2,279 112 14 - 15 SEMH 54,529 54,798 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 1,088 0 113 14 - 15 SEMH 20,284 41,637 13,878 13,878 13,878 15,679 18,109 -2,175 2,430 114 14 - 15 SEMH 0 0 0 0 0 0 13,900 13,900 13,900 115 14 - 15 SEMH 36,807 50,592 50,588 50,588 50,588 50,588 50,588 13,781 0 116 14 - 15 SEMH 60,632 60,632 60,627 60,627 60,627 60,627 60,627 -5 0 117 15 - 16 SEMH 13,500 0 0 0 0 0 0 -13,500 0 118 15 - 16 SEMH 27,627 545 0 0 0 545 545 -27,082 0 119 15 - 16 SEMH 11,579 40,000 38,576 38,576 38,576 39,997 39,997 28,418 0 120 15 - 16 SEMH 0 0 3,800 3,800 3,800 3,800 3,800 3,800 0 121 15 - 16 SEMH 35,956 54,798 14,132 14,132 14,132 13,651 13,651 -22,305 0 122 15 - 16 SEMH 0 0 48,171 48,171 48,171 48,171 48,171 48,171 0 123 15 - 16 SEMH 41,701 45,216 45,212 45,212 45,212 45,212 45,212 3,511 0 124 15 - 16 SEMH 58,119 58,119 58,274 58,274 58,274 58,274 58,274 154 0 125 15 - 16 SEMH 54,529 54,798 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 1,088 0 126 15 - 16 SEMH 16,686 54,228 54,224 54,224 54,224 54,224 54,224 37,538 0 127 15 - 16 SEMH 17,996 0 0 0 0 0 0 -17,996 0 128 15 - 16 SEMH 0 0 0 20,810 20,810 20,810 20,810 20,810 0 129 15 - 16 SEMH 47,333 47,333 70,994 70,994 70,994 70,994 70,994 23,661 0 130 15 - 16 SEMH 1,658 40,500 40,497 40,497 40,497 40,497 40,497 38,839 0 131 15 - 16 SEMH -9,638 0 0 0 0 0 0 9,638 0 132 15 - 16 SEMH 19,368 53,952 53,948 53,948 53,948 53,948 53,948 34,580 0 133 15 - 16 SEMH 33,672 19,254 19,253 19,253 19,253 19,253 19,253 -14,420 0 134 15 - 16 SEMH 0 14,402 14,401 14,401 14,401 14,401 14,401 14,401 0 135 15 - 16 SEMH 54,529 54,798 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 55,617 1,088 0 136 16 - 17 SEMH 49,296 47,985 47,981 47,981 47,981 47,981 47,981 -1,315 0 137 16 - 17 SEMH 59,331 55,622 55,618 55,618 55,618 55,618 41,789 -17,542 -13,828 138 16 - 17 SEMH 0 0 8,687 8,687 8,687 8,687 2,855 2,855 -5,833 139 16 - 17 SEMH 49,161 110,715 46,279 46,279 46,279 36,905 36,905 -12,256 0 140 16 - 17 SEMH 32,470 28,353 28,428 28,428 28,428 28,428 14,214 -18,256 -14,214 141 16 - 17 SEMH 8,113 8,113 8,112 8,112 8,112 1,200 1,200 -6,913 0 142 16 - 17 SEMH 17,996 0 0 0 0 0 0 -17,996 0 143 16 - 17 SEMH 115,700 130,824 47,136 48,060 48,060 48,329 48,329 -67,372 0 144 16 - 17 SEMH 0 0 49,981 49,277 49,277 49,277 49,277 49,277 0 145 16 - 17 SEMH 27,083 0 0 0 0 0 0 -27,083 0 146 16 - 17 SEMH 10,225 9,600 9,599 9,599 9,599 -4,000 -3,400 -13,625 600 147 16 - 17 SEMH 38,133 43,698 43,694 43,694 43,694 43,694 43,694 5,562 0 148 17 - 16 SEMH 14,843 0 0 0 0 0 0 -14,843 0 149 17 - 16 SEMH 16,609 0 0 0 0 0 0 -16,609 0 150 17 - 18 SEMH 9,952 0 0 0 0 0 0 -9,952 0 151 17 - 18 SEMH 54,529 54,798 55,617 55,617 55,617 18,266 18,266 -36,263 0 152 17 - 18 SEMH 25,076 0 0 0 0 0 0 -25,076 0 153 17 - 18 SEMH 55,148 43,689 18,262 18,262 18,262 14,563 14,563 -40,585 0 154 17 - 18 SEMH 45,808 41,232 17,235 17,235 17,235 13,744 13,744 -32,064 0 155 17 - 18 SEMH 61,560 46,398 19,394 19,394 19,394 15,466 15,466 -46,094 0 156 17 - 18 SEMH 0 10,000 9,999 9,999 9,999 2,067 2,067 2,067 0 157 19 - 20 SEMH -12,597 0 0 0 0 0 0 12,597 0 158 19 - 20 SEMH 17,996 0 0 0 0 0 0 -17,996 0 159 19 - 20 SEMH 19,705 0 0 0 0 0 0 -19,705 0 160 14 - 15 SEMH 9,172 21,006 19,870 19,870 10,044 8,868 8,868 -304 0 161 14 - 15 SLCN 32,921 35,664 36,681 36,681 36,681 36,681 36,681 3,760 0 162 10 - 11 SLCN 0 62,320 66,233 66,233 66,233 66,233 66,233 66,233 0 163 15 - 16 SLCN 39,708 39,708 40,840 40,840 40,840 40,840 40,840 1,132 0 164 17 - 18 SLCN 17,825 18,000 17,999 17,999 7,499 7,499 7,499 -10,326 0 165 15 - 16 SLD 0 0 0 2,968 2,968 2,968 2,968 2,968 0 166 17 - 18 SLD 0 0 18,417 18,417 18,417 18,417 18,417 18,417 0 167 18 - 19 SLD 20,035 0 43,336 43,336 43,336 43,336 43,336 23,301 0 168 10 - 11 SLD 750 16,286 16,284 16,999 16,999 22,350 22,350 21,600 0 169 10 - 11 SLD 0 0 2,885 2,885 2,885 2,885 2,885 2,885 0 170 19 - 20 SLD 0 0 32,981 32,981 32,981 32,981 32,981 32,981 0 171 20 - 21 SLD 26,692 0 45,753 45,753 45,753 45,753 45,753 19,061 0 172 12 - 13 SPLD 65,543 65,543 67,412 67,412 67,412 67,412 67,412 1,869 0 173 13 - 14 SpLD 24,581 29,694 30,541 30,541 30,541 30,541 30,541 5,960 0 174 13 - 14 SpLD 22,647 0 0 0 0 0 0 -22,647 0 175 13 - 14 SPLD 474 1,422 1,422 1,422 1,422 2,800 2,800 2,326 0 176 14 - 15 SPLD 17,997 15,974 15,973 15,973 15,973 15,973 15,973 -2,025 0 177 14 - 15 SPLD 13,200 17,350 14,666 14,666 14,666 14,666 14,666 1,466 0 178 14 - 15 SPLD 24,413 22,782 22,780 22,780 22,780 22,780 22,780 -1,633 0 179 15 - 16 SPLD 0 11,185 3,692 3,692 1,309 4,095 4,095 4,095 0 180 15 - 16 SPLD 37,630 40,425 40,997 40,997 40,997 40,997 40,997 3,367 0 181 17 - 18 SPLD 106,008 106,008 105,999 105,999 105,999 105,999 105,999 -9 0 182 17 - 18 SPLD 7,511 0 0 0 0 0 0 -7,511 0 183 18 - 19 SpLD 30,017 30,215 30,212 30,212 30,212 30,212 30,212 195 0 184 18 - 19 SpLD 0 0 816 816 816 816 816 816 0 185 19 - 20 SpLD 6,247 0 0 0 0 0 0 -6,247 0 186 20 - 21 SPLD 18,528 18,552 18,550 18,550 18,550 18,550 18,550 22 0 187 20 - 21 SPLD 0 0 42 42 42 42 42 42 0 188 20 - 21 SPLD 6,791 0 0 0 0 0 0 -6,791 0 189 13 - 14 VI 11,979 39,015 40,912 40,912 40,912 40,912 40,912 28,933 0 190 10 - 11 12,906 11,109 11,292 11,292 11,292 11,292 11,292 -1,614 0 191 12 - 13 36,306 0 0 0 0 0 0 -36,306 0
192 15 - 16 0 16,166 16,165 16,165 16,165 16,165 16,165 16,165 0 193 17 - 18 0 0 26,443 26,443 26,443 26,443 26,443 26,443 0 194 18 - 19 29,829 26,514 29,757 29,757 29,757 38,399 38,399 8,570 0 195 19 - 20 62,227 74,672 74,666 74,666 74,666 78,760 78,760 16,533 0 196 20 - 21 50,123 50,442 50,352 50,352 50,352 50,352 50,352 229 0 197 ASD 0 0 0 50,863 50,863 50,863 50,863 50,863 0 198 ASD 0 0 0 23,076 23,076 23,076 23,076 23,076 0 199 ASD 0 0 0 68,413 68,413 68,413 68,413 68,413 0 200 N/A -31,754 0 0 0 0 0 0 31,754 0 201 N/A -32,200 0 0 0 0 0 0 32,200 0 202 N/A -10,365 0 0 0 0 0 0 10,365 0 4,394,795 5,101,426 5,591,249 5,822,894 5,835,365 5,864,946 5,865,863 1,471,068 918
N New 0 0 Future 0 0 E Ended 0 0 C Changes 12 918 Transport 0 0 Immaterial individually (less than £1k) 0 Net 918 Appendix D Distribution of the unapproved disapplication block movement £260k
Total DfE No School Name Number on 260,000.00 Roll 8023122 3122 All Saints East Clevedon A 118.0 1,071.18 8022277 2277 Ashcombe A 623.0 5,655.48 8023075 3075 Backwell A 234.0 2,124.21 8022271 2271 Banwell P 170.0 1,543.23 8022319 2319 Becket, Worle A 190.0 1,724.79 8022262 2262 Birdwell A 407.0 3,694.67 8022013 2013 Blagdon A 107.0 971.33 8023455 3455 Bournville A 411.0 3,730.98 8023351 3351 Burrington P 62.0 562.82 8022332 2332 Castle Batch, Worle A 422.0 3,830.84 8023117 3117 Christ Church, Weston A 203.0 1,842.80 8023113 3113 Churchill P 191.0 1,733.86 8023354 3354 Corpus Christi P 189.0 1,715.71 8023121 3121 Court de Wyck A 128.0 1,161.96 8023130 3130 Crockerne C of E A 287.0 2,605.33 8022007 2007 Dundry A 80.0 726.23 8023091 3091 Flax Bourton A 178.0 1,615.85 8022295 2295 Golden Valley P 414.0 3,758.22 8022261 2261 Grove A 217.0 1,969.89 8022268 2268 Hannah More, Nailsea A 157.0 1,425.22 8022001 2001 Haywood Village A 293.0 2,659.80 8023451 3451 Herons Moor A 412.0 3,740.06 8022254 2254 High Down, Portishead A 252.0 2,287.61 8022263 2263 High Down, Portishead A 385.0 3,494.96 8023116 3116 Hutton A 204.0 1,851.87 8022273 2273 Kewstoke P 85.0 771.61 8022000 2000 Kingshill A 135.0 1,225.51 8022286 2286 Locking A 372.0 3,376.95 8022006 2006 Parklands Educate Tog A 63.3 574.17 8022310 2310 Mary Elton A 407.0 3,694.67 8022009 2009 Mead Vale A 343.0 3,113.69 8022285 2285 Mendip Green A 628.0 5,700.87 8023454 3454 Milton Park A 368.0 3,340.64 8023095 3095 Northleaze A 206.0 1,870.03 8022287 2287 Oldmixon A 192.0 1,742.94 8022252 2252 Portishead A 448.0 4,066.86 8022283 2283 Sandford P 149.0 1,352.59 8023114 3114 St Andrew's, Congresbury P 214.0 1,942.65 8023115 3115 St Anne's, Hewish A 370.0 3,358.79 8023350 3350 St Francis P 189.0 1,715.71 8022005 2005 St Georges A 205.0 1,860.95 8023450 3450 St John the Evangelist A 303.0 2,750.58 8023349 3349 St Joseph's, Portishead P 204.0 1,851.87 8023447 3447 St Mark's, Worle A 424.0 3,848.99 8023118 3118 St Martin's A 480.0 4,357.35 8023446 3446 St Mary's, Portbury A 114.0 1,034.87 8023129 3129 St Nicholas Chantry A 388.0 3,522.19 8023099 3099 St Peter's C of E A 620.0 5,628.25 8022003 2003 Tickenham A 96.0 871.47 8023452 3452 Trinity A 446.0 4,048.71 8022276 2276 Uphill P 310.0 2,814.12 8022316 2316 Walliscote A 272.0 2,469.17 8022264 2264 West Leigh A 165.0 1,497.84 8022280 2280 Windwhistle A 379.0 3,440.49 8023108 3108 Winford A 207.0 1,879.11 8022284 2284 Winscombe P 216.0 1,960.81 8023352 3352 Worlebury P 198.0 1,797.41 8022292 2292 Worle Village A 186.0 1,688.47 8023348 3348 Wraxall A 88.0 798.85 8023119 3119 Wrington P 204.0 1,851.87 8023120 3120 Yatton A 234.0 2,124.21 8023111 3111 Yatton A 348.0 3,159.08 8022002 2002 Yeo Moor A 386.0 3,504.04 8021111 1111 Chestnut Park A 11.7 105.91 Total Primary 16,987.92 154,213.18 8024129 4129 Backwell A 1,393 12,645.40 8024003 4003 Broadoak A 828 7,516.43 8024139 4139 Churchill A 1,305 11,846.55 8024136 4136 Clevedon A 1,108 10,058.22 8024135 4135 Gordano A 1,611 14,624.36 8024145 4145 Hans Price A 941 8,542.22 8024137 4137 Nailsea A 807 7,324.28 8024002 4002 NSETC/Winterstoke A 63 567.36 8024143 4143 Priory A 1,394 12,654.48 8024144 4144 St Katherines A 778 7,062.54 8024001 4001 Worle A 1,426 12,944.97 Total Secondary 11,653 105,786.82 Total all schools 28,641 260,000.00 Per pupil 9.08 THE DSG BUDGET 2020-21 Appendix E
Budget Heading 2020/21 2020/21 budget 2019/20 budget 2019/20 2019/20 forecast 2020/21 compared with Notes/ Paragraph projected compared Breakdown of blocks 2020/21 budget outurn budget 2019/20 in Report variance with 2019/20 forecast budget outturn Central Schools schools Early years High needs block services block block block £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Universal provision and early intervention 1 Delegated funding 11,303,324 10,883,801 2 Formula recoupment for academies 117,084,644 3 Early Years Pupil Premium & Disabled Access Fund 4 Statutory Service Charge 35,958 38,054 2,096 5 ESG Retained services 443,273 119,281 Sub-total 130,758,264 130,758,264 2,096 139,834,323 9,076,059 9,076,059 128,387,968 443,273 11,003,082 0 Intensive support for vulnerable learners
6 Delegated place funding 3,753,914 3,915,498 161,584 4,288,333 372,835 534,419 4,288,333 3.44 7 Top up funding 11,415,005 12,221,016 806,011 12,769,159 548,143 1,354,154 298,101 12,471,058 3.45 8 Education Inclusion Service 897,827 966,433 68,606 814,791 (151,642) (83,036) 304,386 510,405 3.49 9 Out of Authority Placements 5,000,000 5,865,863 865,863 4,506,228 (1,359,635) (493,772) 4,506,228 3.50 10 Early years services 170,906 170,906 0 166,825 (4,081) (4,081) 13,603 126,849 25,721 11 Electively home educated children 18,333 18,333 0 18,333 0 0 18,333 12 Commissioned tuition service 540,000 540,000 0 540,000 0 0 540,000 13 Business rates and rent for AP 110,000 127,751 17,751 110,000 (17,751) 0 110,000 14 Enhanced Provision 94,409 94,409 0 94,409 0 0 94,409 15 SEN equipment and other expenses 244,999 462,288 217,289 465,000 2,712 220,001 465,000 3.48 16 Out of School Panel for provision for CME 100,000 204,086 104,086 100,000 (104,086) 0 100,000 17 Truro Pathways 220,376 232,876 12,500 250,376 17,500 30,000 250,376 18 School Placement Support Team 120,037 120,096 59 120,037 (59) 0 120,037 Sub-total 22,685,806 24,939,555 2,253,749 24,243,491 (696,064) 1,557,685 0 317,989 424,950 23,499,900 Strategic and centrally administered 19 Support and advice to SSF/Schools (O) 150,588 150,588 0 58,161 (92,427) (92,427) 58,161 3.51 20 Strategic Schools Forum costs 7,841 7,841 0 7,547 (294) (294) 6,895 652 21 Prudential Borrowing (H) 632,704 632,703 -1 632,704 1 0 632,704 22 Licenses & subscriptions (O) 148,237 147,235 (1,002) 150,892 3,657 2,655 150,892 23 Admissions Service 229,699 229,699 0 230,000 301 301 230,000 24 Health and Safety 0 1,349 1,349 230,000 25 Early years administration 79,953 79,953 0 94,282 14,329 14,329 18,358 75,924 26 Contingencies 1,185,907 1,185,907 0 930,317 (255,590) (255,590) 930,317 3.52 Sub-total 2,434,930 2,435,275 346 2,333,903 -330,023 -331,026 930,317 1,097,011 76,576 0 Total estimated schools budget 155,879,000 158,133,094 2,256,191 166,411,717 8,049,972 10,302,718 129,318,285 1,858,273 11,504,608 23,499,900 Funded by: DSG 129,968,128 1,888,682 11,504,608 22,819,648 Difference 649,843 30,409 0 -680,252 Strategic Schools Forum -4 4th March 2020
Agenda Item No.8
North Somerset Council Audit West – Annual Report on Schools
Content: Page:
1. Background 2
2. Joint Working with Bath and North East Somerset Council 2
3. Responsibilities of the School and Internal Auditors 2
4. Internal Audit Annual Assurance Plan 2
5. Internal Audit Service approach for 2020/2021 4
6. Additional Services Available to Schools and Academies 4
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1. Background
This Annual Report has been produced at the request of the Strategic Schools Forum stakeholders to explain the role of the service, the major conclusions and findings for 2019/20, and the proposed coverage for 2020/21.
The overall aim of the Internal Audit Service (Audit West) in relation to the Local Authority’s primary, secondary and special Schools is to:
provide an independent audit opinion to the Head Teacher, Governors, the Director of People and Communities and the Council’s Section 151 Officer on the soundness of the financial, governance and administrative systems and controls operated within North Somerset maintained Schools; recommend any improvements in the systems and procedures, which are considered necessary.
In April 2020 the Council’s Audit Committee will approve the draft annual Assurance Audit Plan for the Council, which includes coverage of the People and Communities Directorate (including Schools). This approval will take place after significant consultation with stakeholders about the required content of the plan.
2. Internal Audit - Joint Working with Bath and North East Somerset Council
Since 2015, North Somerset Council have been working in partnership with Bath and North East Somerset Council to provide Internal Audit Services to both councils. Bath and North East Somerset act as the host authority for the joint service which is named ‘Audit West’.
Over the past years, Audit West/ One West have worked with North Somerset Schools and Academies, primarily in the areas of Audit, GDPR and Business Continuity services (see section 6 for a list of services). This year, in response to the increasing interest in Climate and Environment, Audit West intends to offer a Climate Change Health Check offering for schools. Please contact Peter Cann for more information.
3. Responsibilities of the School and Internal Auditors
Governors and Head Teachers have direct responsibility for sound systems of risk management, internal control, governance and improvement, aimed at the achievement of the Schools objectives. Internal Audit work is not a substitute for these responsibilities and whilst every effort is made to ensure that Internal Audit work will detect significant control weaknesses, we do not guarantee to detect every issue and it is the Schools responsibility to pass on potential issues to the Auditors.
4. Internal Audit Service Annual Assurance Plan 2019/20
People and Communities Internal Audit Work The Internal Audit Service plan for 2019/20 included work specifically within the Educational area of the People and Communities Children’s Services, as follows:
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i) Internal Audit Reviews
Internal audit visits continued to focus on key risks. Primarily testing included coverage of governance, budgetary control, and contract management.
The main findings from our 2019/20 reviews included:
Assessment Main findings Area
• Absence of Risk Registers and/or lack of associated discussion/ review/ update. • Weaknesses in financial monitoring, including: - reports presented to Governors not being fully accurate - reports not being formally signed off by the Chair of the committee. Governance - committee minutes not recording financial discussions, including approval of spending and budgets. • Business Continuity and Disaster recovery plans not in place. • Limited or no benchmarking of supplies and costs completed. • Policies not being reviewed/ updated/ re-approved on a regular basis.
• Incomplete or no scheme of delegation for authorising journals, virements Budgetary and purchasing. Control
• Non-completion of purchase orders. Purchasing
• No central register held for contracts (including name of company, contract value, length of contract, officer responsible for managing the Contracts contract, etc) • Lack of contract monitoring, including specified performance indicators
ii) Counter Fraud and Investigations
The outcomes from all investigations completed within Schools are used to inform future audit coverage, and any immediate fraud updates (such as scams) are communicated via the Noticeboard to ensure suggested improvements to controls and any issues are relayed to all Schools.
iii) Advice and Guidance The internal audit service provides ongoing advice and guidance to officers within Schools and the P&C (Children) Directorate. School meal returns and School fund returns also continue to be monitored.
iv) Schools Financial Value Standard (SFVS)
The SFVS continues to be a mandatory requirement of the Education and Skills Funding Agency as a means of assisting Schools in managing their finances and to give assurance that they have robust governance arrangements in place.
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Governors are reminded that they have formal responsibility for the financial management of their Schools and thus the standard is primarily aimed at them.
Maintained Schools are required to complete the SFVS once a year and should be submitted by the 31st March each year. Please submit your returns to [email protected] or [email protected] .
More information can be found at the following web address:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/schools-financial-value-standard-and-assurance-sfvs
Results of 2018/19 SFVS Returns
Only one SFVS return was not submitted to Internal Audit by the 31st March 2019 deadline. This late return was subsequently reported to the DfE as such, however, it was subsequently provided to Internal Audit prior to submission of the SFVS DSG CFO Assurance Statement to the DfE in May 2019.
The main issues arising from the 2018/19 returns were similar to the previous year, and can be summarised as follows:
• Business Continuity/ Disaster Recovery Plans not completed, reviewed and/ or test exercises not completed • Benchmarking not completed regularly. • Non-completion of the skills matrix/ range/ breath of financial skills for Governors • IT and Asset Inventories not up to date • Schools Development Plans not including costs • Lack of oversight and monitoring of Contracts.
5. Internal Audit Service planned approach for 2020/2021 On 17 July 2019, the DfE published a consultation document seeking feedback by 30 September 2019 on various proposals to better align the financial transparency arrangements for local authority maintained schools and academy trusts. One of these proposals was a directed revision to the scheme for financing schools to make it a requirement for maintained schools to be subject to internal audit at least every 3 years.
In line with this proposal, during the 2019/20 financial year, the Audit Service have already started to proactively undertake audit reviews on the basis of date of last review. This approach will be continued in 2020/21 onwards as part of an overall cyclical plan. We will therefore shortly be in contact with those schools that are due for an audit in 2020/21. Please contact [email protected] or [email protected] if you would like any further information at this stage.
6. Additional Services Available to Schools and Academies
Audit West and One West offer a range of specialist professional services to Schools and Academies including:
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• Information Governance Health Check • Fraud Prevention • Data Protection • Business Continuity • Cyber Security • Records Management • Investigations • Health and Safety • Climate Change Health Check *new for 2020
More details of these services can be found at www.onewest.co.uk
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