De-delegation Members of the SFF representing maintained primary and secondary phases unanimously voted to continue de-delegating some specific budgets in 2017-18. The ratification of this process took place at the SFF meeting held on the 9 December 2016. The budgets where de-delegation applies will be recouped from individual schools in 12 monthly instalments through the schools advances system. The CFR codes that the recoupment charge will be coded against are shown in table below. Budget Heading Amount de-delegated per CFR code pupil Primary Secondary Schools in Financial Difficulties £18.81 £9.45 E23 Free School Meals Eligibility £0.57 £0.57 E28 Licences and Subscriptions (SIMs) £3.63 £3.63 E19 Trade Union Duties £1.85 £1.85 E10 Schools Personnel Services £0.80 £0.80 E28 Total amount per pupil £25.66 £16.30 Post 16 / 6th Form Funding At the time of writing this guidance, the Education Funding Agency (EFA) have not finalised post 16 budgets. On receipt of this information, due for release by the EFA sometime in March, schools will need to manually record this information on their 3 year financial plans. Pupil Growth At the SFF meeting on the 9 December 2017, members of the Forum ratified the LAs growth funding policy for 2017-18. In summary, as directed by the EFA in 2015-16, schools will only qualify for funding if the growth is related to Basic Need. To access the Growth Policy for 2017-18 click on this link . The total available funding retained by the LA for in year pupil growth in 2017-18 is £7.5m. Schools who will be eligible for the reorganisation funding element of Growth funding will receive an w/c 27 February from Ian Hamilton (Schools Budget and PVI Manager) detailing their funding for the financial year April 2017 to March 2018. If a school is entitled to the rising roll element of growth funding it will be shown on the growth tab of the school budget template, to access this information click on this link . Early Years Funding The Government are introducing a National Funding Formula for Early Years from 1 April 2017. The funding of each maintained nursery class and our maintained nursery school will continue to be calculated by the LA using a local formula. Each school with a maintained early year’s class will receive a letter w/c 6 March confirming their hourly funding rate from 1 April 2017. SECTION E SPECIAL SCHOOLS –
De-delegation Members of the SFF representing maintained primary and secondary phases unanimously voted to continue de-delegating some specific budgets in 2017-18. The ratification of this process took place at the SFF meeting held on the 9 December 2016. The budgets where de-delegation applies will be recouped from individual schools in 12 monthly instalments through the schools advances system. The CFR codes that the recoupment charge will be coded against are shown in table below. Budget Heading Amount de-delegated per pupil CFR code Primary Secondary Schools in Financial Difficulties £18.81 £9.45 E23 Free School Meals Eligibility £0.57 £0.57 E28 Licences and Subscriptions (SIMs) £3.63 £3.63 E19 Trade Union Duties £1.85 £1.85 E10 Schools Personnel Services £0.80 £0.80 E28 Total amount per pupil £25.66 £16.30 Post 16 / 6th Form Funding At the time of writing this guidance, the Education Funding Agency (EFA) have not finalised post 16 budgets. On receipt of this information, due for release by the EFA sometime in March, schools will need to manually record this information on their 3 year financial plans. Pupil Growth At the SFF meeting on the 9 December 2017, members of the Forum ratified the LAs growth funding policy for 2017-18. In summary, as directed by the EFA in 2015-16, schools will only qualify for funding if the growth is related to Basic Need. To access the Growth Policy for 2017-18 click on this link . The total available funding retained by the LA for in year pupil growth in 2017-18 is £7.5m. Schools who will be eligible for the reorganisation funding element of Growth funding will receive an w/c 27 February from Ian Hamilton (Schools Budget and PVI Manager) detailing their funding for the financial year April 2017 to March 2018. If a school is entitled to the rising roll element of growth funding it will be shown on the growth tab of the school budget template, to access this information click on this link . Early Years Funding The Government are introducing a National Funding Formula for Early Years from 1 April 2017. The funding of each maintained nursery class and our maintained nursery school will continue to be calculated by the LA using a local formula. Each school with a maintained early year’s class will receive a letter w/c 6 March confirming their hourly funding rate from 1 April 2017. SECTION E – SPECIAL SCHOOLS
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