Decision details

To request approval to consult local authority maintained special schools and academies and pupil referral units within North Yorkshire on the allocation methodology for the DfE Core Schools Budget Grant for the 2024/25 financial year.

Approval for a consultation to be undertaken with Special Schools, Alternative Provision (AP) Schools and Early Years Providers on the methodology to be used by the local authority for the distribution of the Core Schools Budget Grant and Early Years Budget Grant to these establishments for the 2024/25 financial year

The Core Schools Budget Grant CSBG) funding allocation for Special Schools and AP (both LA maintained and academies) is paid to local authorities by the DfE. Local authorities have flexibility in how they pass on the funding allocations for special schools and AP schools to individual providers. This flexibility recognises that the teachers’ pay costs faced by special schools and AP schools may vary between individual providers, depending in part on the complexity of the pupil needs that they serve.

However, the DfE require local authorities to comply with the following requirements in setting their local methodologies for how they will pass on the additional funding to schools they currently maintain, academies they previously maintained and free schools located in their area. Local authorities must:
• pass on 100% of the CSBG funding allocated in respect of those schools, to those schools.
• ensure that all those schools receive a funding allocation from the CSBG in 2024/2025
• have transparent criteria to distribute funding to individual schools, treating academies and maintained schools the same
• consult with those schools before deciding their methodology for allocating CSBG funding

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