Post on 01-Feb-2016
description
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
• 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
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
DSG Allocation
• Cash flat – no more money
• Growth has to be absorbed
• Includes Post 16 and 2 year olds
• SEN: 0-25
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
Formula Detail• Allowable Factors
AWPU Mobility > 10%
Deprivation Lump sum: £60k/£145k
Looked After Children Sparsity
Low cost, high incidence SEN (LCHI)
Rates
English as an additional language (EAL)
Split sites & PFI
Formula funding
•School A
•School B
•School C
•1 mile
•1 mile •2
miles•1 mile
•3 miles
•5 miles
•2 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.
•4 miles
•Key•1st nearest school
•Distance to 2nd nearest school
Delegation and Centrally Provided Services
SEN and High NeedsElement How High Needs
funding worksFunding source
Element 3£5.3m
Top-up High Needs Block
Named pupils – costs higher than AWPU + £6,000
Additional support for Element 2£2.8m
High levels SEN/Small schools
High Needs Block
Targeted fund – pupil led but criteria driven.Have to qualify for funding
Element 2 £12m
First £6k of high needs funding
School Budget Formula led
Element 1 AWPU School budget Basic entitlement – all pupils receive this – formula led
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)
Primary SecondaryFSM+6
Prior Attainment Prior Attainment
Pupil Numbers Pupil numbers
LAC LAC
LCHI SEN
• For Low Cost High Incidence (LCHI) SEN- for children who have additional need but not necessarily high need
• Distributed through formula directly into schools budgets
• School wide – not named children
LCHI SEN
To contribute to the costs of whole school’s additional SEN arrangements
* Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index
Primary Formula Secondary Formula
LCHI SEN LCHI SEN
FSM+6 Prior Attainment
Prior Attainment
IDACI*
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)
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
Targeted Fund - HNBTransitional 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
High Needs Element 2
Examples
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!
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
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
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