Decision details

To approve the 2015/16 funding formula for Surrey schools for notification to the Department for Education by the deadline of 31 October 2014

1.         The funding formula for Surrey schools be prepared on the basis of a £10m transfer within Dedicated Schools Grant from Schools to High Needs  -principally to children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

2.         The commitment to a long term resolution of funding pressures in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) be noted, with the Cabinet to receive a report on progress in February 2015.

3.         The revisions to the schools’ funding formula, as recommended by the Schools Forum and set out in paragraph 21 of the submitted report, be introduced.

4          The proposed Surrey formula factors as set out in Annex 2 of the submitted report be approved for submission to the DfE by the 31 October deadline.

5          Authority is delegated to the Assistant Director, Schools & Learning, in conjunction with the Leader and the Cabinet Member for Schools & Learning, to update and amend the formula as appropriate following receipt of the DSG settlement and DfE pupil data in December 2014.  This is to ensure that total allocations to schools under this formula remain affordable within the council’s DSG settlement to be announced during December.

Reasons for Decisions:

To comply with DfE regulations requiring notification of the Council’s funding formula for schools by 31 October 2014.

[The decisions on this item can be called in by the Children and Education Select Committee]