Consultation outcome

School loan schemes: changes to criteria

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 24 March 2017
• Last updated: 22 March 2018
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  1. 22 March 2018

     Added a link to the government response.

  2. 24 March 2017

     First published.

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

Summary of responses and government’s response is available on the related school loan scheme: implementation of changes consultation page.

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Original consultation

Summary

We are seeking views on changes to the guidance for agreeing loans for local-authority-maintained schools.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
1pm on 24 March 2017 to 5pm on 21 April 2017

Consultation description

We’d like your views on:

• a proposed revision to the statutory ‘Scheme for financing schools guidance’, to clarify the criteria around the use of loan schemes
• an associated revision to the ‘Treatment of surplus and deficit balances when maintained schools become academies’ guidance