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Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2020 to 2021

Find out how much DSG funding local authorities receive and how it is calculated.

Updates to this page

From:
Education and Skills Funding Agency
Published:
19 December 2019
Last updated:
18 November 2021
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  1. We have finalised the early years block allocations for 2020 to 2021 based on the early years funding guidance for local authorities: spring term 2021 and updated the pupil number tool.

  2. We have updated the 2020 to 2021 dedicated schools grant allocations to reflect latest academies recoupment data, including academy conversions, as at 1 March 2021, and also updated high needs places.

  3. We have updated the 2020 to 2021 dedicated schools grant allocations to reflect latest academies recoupment data, including academy conversions, as at 1 January 2021.

  4. Updated the 2020 to 2021 dedicated schools grant (DSG) allocations to reflect latest academies recoupment data including academy conversions as at 1 October 2020

  5. Technical note updated to reflect changes following the launch of guidance on the use of free early years entitlements during coronavirus (Covid-19)

  6. We have updated the pupil number tool for 2020 to 2021 which reflect the allocations updated on https://skillsfunding.service.gov.uk/

  7. We have updated the published DSG allocations for 2020 to 2021, to reflect changes in recoupment and high needs place numbers.

  8. Added "The Secretary of State reserves the right to impose more specific conditions of grant on individual local authorities that have an overall deficit on their DSG account, where he believes that they are not taking sufficient action to address the situation." to the conditions of grant.

  9. We have added the DSG conditions of grant and pupil number tool for 2020 to 2021.

  10. First published.

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Please see the latest information on DSG in our pre-16 schools funding collection.

Documents

DSG: published allocations 2020 to 2021

https://skillsfunding.service.gov.uk/view-latest-funding

DSG: technical note 2020 to 2021

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DSG: growth calculations values 2020 to 2021

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DSG: conditions of grant 2020 to 2021

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DSG: Early years pupil number tool 2020 to 2021 (updated November 2021)

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DSG: pupil number tool 2020 to 2021 (updated July 2020)

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Details

Allocations

We have finalised the early years block allocations for 2020 to 2021 based on the early years funding guidance for local authorities: spring term 2021. An early years pupil number tool shows the details of the pupil numbers used for the final allocation.

About the calculation

Read the technical note to understand how we calculate these allocations.

The DSG growth calculations values tables give details of the 2020 to 2021 financial year growth calculation, which forms part of the schools block in the DSG allocations.

Further information

Read the DSG conditions of grant to find out more about how the grant should be used.

You can also use the pupil number tool to see how many pupils are allocated to each local authority.

Contact the Education and Skills Funding Agency with any queries.

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