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