A report seeking approval to apply a Minimum Funding Guarantee (MFG) of 0% in the calculation of special school budgets for the 2021/22 financial year, and to use the revised methodology for calculating the contextual funding component of the formula allocation for special school budgets.

Considered–

Areport ofthe CorporateDirectorfor Children& YoungPeople’sServicesseeking Executive approval for a number of recommendations relating to school funding for 2021-22.

County Councillor Patrick Mulligan presented the report highlighting the recommendations had been broadly supported by the special schools community during a county wide consultation exercise that took place in late 2020. He also noted that the report’s recommendations had also been discussed positively by the North Yorkshire Schools Forum, and drew attention to those recommendations at paragraph 7 of the report.

Members had no questions and voted in favour of the recommendations, and therefore it was  

Resolved– That:

i.       A Minimum Funding Guarantee (MFG) of 0% be applied in the calculation of special school budgets for the 2021/22 financial year.

ii.      The revised methodology for calculating the contextual funding component of the formula allocation for special school budgets be used.