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School Funding Reform

School Funding Reform. Funding arrangements from April 2014. Overview. National context What’s been happening in Devon Formula detail De-delegation/ Central Services High needs and SEN funding Timetable Questions?. National Context. Working assumption – NFF from 2015-16

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School Funding Reform

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  1. School Funding Reform Funding arrangements from April 2014

  2. Overview • National context • What’s been happening in Devon • Formula detail • De-delegation/ Central Services • High needs and SEN funding • Timetable • Questions?

  3. National Context • Working assumption – NFF from 2015-16 • Likely to be phased redistribution of funding • Pupil led funding – pupil’s needs before institutions • Greater autonomy for local decision making – more money out to schools but more responsibility to deliver

  4. What’s been happening • MP’s – lobbying for fair funding and recognition of local issues • Active members of F40 national formula research team • Assessing impact of 13-14 reforms on individual schools • Review of SEN and high needs funding

  5. DSG Allocation • Cash flat – no more money • Growth has to be absorbed • Includes Post 16 and 2 year olds • SEN: 0-25

  6. Formula Detail (page 3 – 11) • 13 allowable factors • 2 new factors: sparsity and targeted mobility • Mandatory thresholds for AWPU, proportion of pupil-led funding and school’s contribution to high needs costs • Different lump sum for primary and secondary

  7. Formula Detail • Allowable Factors

  8. Formula funding

  9. 5 miles School B • 4 miles School A • 2 miles • 3 miles • Does School A qualify for sparsity funding? • YES - Average distance to 2nd nearest school = 2.38 miles • YES – It has fewer than 60 primary pupils • How much sparsity funding will it get? • LA has set a sparsity lump sum of £60,000 (to match the primary lump sum). School A has 40 pupils. It will therefore attract a sparsity lump sum of £20,000 under the tapering approach. Because the school is two thirds the standard size, it gets one thirds of the sparseness factor. • 1 mile • 2 miles • 1 mile • 1 mile School C • Key • 1st nearest school • Distance to 2nd nearest school

  10. Delegation and Centrally Provided Services

  11. SEN and High Needs

  12. High Needs Element 2 • £12m allocated via formula directly into schools budgets to fund the first £6,000of additional support for high cost low incidence SEN (not on named pupils)

  13. LCHI SEN • For Low Cost High Incidence (LCHI) SEN- for children who have additionalneed but not necessarily high need • Distributed through formula directly into schools budgets • School wide – not named children

  14. LCHI SEN To contribute to the costs of whole school’s additional SEN arrangements * Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index

  15. Targeted Fund - HNB Support for Element 2 first £6k for High Needs - where formula doesn’t deliver • Statements above 3% (P) 2.5% (S) will receive additional funding for the £6,000’s as well as top up • All schools with at least one pupil receiving top up must get at least £6,000 (mainly small school issue but applies to all schools)

  16. Targeted Fund - HNB Support for Low Cost High Incidence SEN • No school will receive less than £5,000 from the LCHI formula Combined this means that: • A school with at least one pupil receiving top up funding must receive a minimum of £11,000 SEN funding

  17. Targeted Fund - HNB Transitional protection • Interim arrangement for 13/14 ends • If a shortfall compared to previous system of fully funding Elements 2 & 3 – 50% protection • ONE YEAR ONLY! • SNIPS: Special Needs Intervention Panel –Schools. Exceptional circumstances only

  18. High Needs Element 2 Examples

  19. High Needs Element 3 • Robust process to access top up funding • SEN – new ways of working: Education Health Care Plans • Need to deliver a single system to access the HNB – fair and consistent • See Appendix 3 consultation document • Plan for change now!

  20. Timetable • 27th September – consultation ends • 3rd October – census day • 18th October – DEF formally recommend • 31st October – submit to EFA • 10th December – DfE confirms DSG block allocations • 23rd December – High Needs Places confirmed to EFA

  21. Timetable • 21st January – Deadline for LA to submit final budget to EFA • 28th February – LA’s confirm budgets to maintained schools • 31st March – EFA confirm budgets to academies

  22. Further information • Devon’s consultation website:www.devon.gov.uk/schoolfinance/consultations • DfE website:www.education.gov.uk • Got a query? Check our on-line FAQ’s or post your own using the on-line enquiry form on our consultation website

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