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To request approval to consult early years’ providers, mainstream schools and academies and special schools and academies within North Yorkshire on early years’, mainstream school and special school funding proposals for the 2024/25 financial year.
In addition, to request approval to consult early years’ providers, if required, on any proposed changes to the early years’ provider funding rates for the 2023/24 financial year as a result of the provision of additional funding from the DfE for September 2023, as announced in the Spring 2023 Budget.

CYPS Executive Members, in conjunction with the Corporate Director – CYPS are asked to provide approval for consultations to be undertaken as follows: a. With mainstream schools and academies within North Yorkshire on:
• The level of the Minimum Funding Guarantee (MFG) for 2024/25
• The methodology for the allocation to school budgets of any surplus funding available after the application of the National Funding Formula (NFF) factor values in the North Yorkshire school funding formula for 2024/25
• The methodology for the management of any funding shortfall in the event of the 2024/25 DSG Schools Block funding allocation being insufficient to fund the North Yorkshire school funding formula based on NFF factor values for the 2024/25 financial year.
b. With special schools and academies within North Yorkshire on: OFFICIAL • The level of the Minimum Funding Guarantee (MFG) for 2024/25, in the event of the funding level increase not being prescribed by the DfE.
c. With early years providers within North Yorkshire on:
• The early years provider base funding rates for 3 and 4-year-olds (universal and extended entitlement) and disadvantaged 2-year-olds for September 2023, in the event of the funding level increase not being prescribed by the DfE.
• The early years provider base funding rates for 3 and 4-year-olds (universal and extended entitlement), 2-year-olds (disadvantaged and working parents) and 9-month-olds of working parents (from September 2024) for 2024/25
• Any other funding consultation deemed to be required as a result of the expansion of early years funded provision during the 2024/25 financial year

It is anticipated that the Department for Education (DfE) will provide information later in July 2023 on indicative funding levels and funding formula changes for the DSG Schools Block, High Needs Block and Central School Services Block for 2024/24.
The DfE have also indicated that details of the funding increase for early years provision for 3 and 4-year-olds (universal and extended entitlement) and disadvantaged 2-yearolds for September 2023, as announced in the Spring 2023 Budget, will be published before the summer break.
It is envisaged that similar indicative DSG funding information will be provided for the 2024/25 Early Years Block in late Autumn 2022. The determination of budgets from the DSG funding sources for mainstream schools, special schools and early years’ providers require local decisions, and associated consultation, to be undertaken on the funding formula elements in respect of the level of the MFG and early years’ provider base funding rates

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