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Decision details

*Republished - no longer subject to call in*

Decision Maker: Executive Member for Education, Learning & Skills

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

To approve consultation to be undertaken with mainstream schools and academies within North Yorkshire on:
• The level of the Minimum Funding Guarantee (MFG) for 2021/22
• The methodology for the allocation to school budgets of any surplus funding available after the application of the NFF factor values in the North Yorkshire funding formula.

Reasons for the decision:

*PLEASE NOTE This decision was originally published on or near the date of the decision and so call in no longer applies. It has been re-published as part of the change in committee management system that we use.*

In Autumn 2017 the Department for Education (DfE) announced national changes to the school funding formula which will eventually see all mainstream school budgets set using a national funding formula. The Schools Forum has adopted an approach of calculating school budgets using the NFF principles as far as possible since the introduction of the formula in 2018-19. The DfE have stated that their continued aim is to move to a “hard” NFF in the future which will determine schools’ budgets directly, rather than through local formulae set independently by each local authority.

On the 20th July 2020 the DfE announced the school funding arrangements for the 2021-22 financial year indicating, nationally, an increase of 3.77% in the NFF for 2021-22 in cash terms compared to 2020-21 and a 3.13% increase in funding per pupil between the two years. The Local Authority intends to consult mainstream schools and academies within North Yorkshire on the level of the MFG to be set for 2021-22 and the methodology to be used for allocation to school budgets of any surplus funding available within the Schools Block DSG after the calculation of the school funding formula using NFF values.

Consultation feedback will be considered by Schools Forum on 12 November with the outcome of the consultation reported to Executive Members on 24 November 2020. A final decision on school funding will be taken by Executive in January 2021



Publication date: 16/04/2021

Date of decision: 15/09/2020