• Local Authority acceptance of the Department for Education (DfE) Grant funding of £972,188 in respect of Financial Support for Local Authorities Supporting Maintained Schools in Financial Difficulty.
• To approve the allocation of the grant funding to a number of local authority-maintained schools that are deemed to meet the eligibility requirements, as determined by the local authority, for the award of the grant funding.
Decision type: Key
Reason Key: Expenditure/savings > £500,000;
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 20/12/2023
Decision due: 19 Mar 2024 by Executive
Lead member: Executive Member for Education, Learning & Skills
Lead director: Corporate Director Children and Young People's Services
Contact: Howard Emmett Email: howard.emmett@northyorks.gov.uk Email: Howard.Emmett@northyorks.gov.uk.
Consultation process
No formal consultation process is required by the DfE on the utilisation of the grant however the local authority will proactively engage with relevant stakeholders in determining the allocation of the grant funding to individual local authority-maintained schools.
Consultees
The local authority will consider the allocation of the grant funding on a case-by-case basis against eligibility requirements that are deemed to be appropriate and objective criteria for determining grant funding allocations to individual local authority-maintained schools.