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School Improvement
11 January 2022
Type
Written Ministerial Statement
Department
Department for Education
At a Glance
Issue Summary
The Department for Education is responding to a public consultation on funding reforms for local authorities' school improvement functions.
Action Requested
The government plans to reduce the local authority school improvement monitoring and brokering grant by 50% in 2022-23, with full removal in 2023-24. Local authorities will be allowed to deduct funding for core school improvement activities from maintained school budgets. This follows the recent spending review's additional investment of £4.7bn in school funding by 2024-25.
Key Facts
- The local authority school improvement monitoring and brokering grant is forecast at c.£42m for 2022-23.
- Funding will be reduced to c.£21m in 2022-23 before full removal in 2023-24.
- The School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2022 will include provision for local authorities to deduct funding from maintained school budgets.
- Additional investment of £4.7bn by 2024-25 through the spending review.
- Mainstream school budgets are due a year-on-year per pupil cash increase of 5.8% in 2022-23.
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