EFA e-bulletin for schools, colleges, local authorities and other 16 to 19 providers: 15 December 2016
Published 15 December 2016
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1. Information: national funding formula: second stage consultation
The Department for Education (DfE) has launched the second stage of its consultation on the national funding formulae (NFF) for schools and high needs.
The second stage consultation sets out the detailed proposals for factor weightings and includes illustrative data to show the impact of the proposals for each school and local authority (LA).
Schools and LAs can see illustrative NFF funding allocations on the schools consultation and high needs consultation homepages. These show the funding they would receive if the formula was implemented in full in 2016 to 2017, without any transitional protections. The figures are illustrative, not actual allocations for any specific year. They are provided to inform the consultation.
The consultation will close on 22 March 2017.
2. Information: schools revenue funding settlement 2017 to 2018
We will publish 2017 to 2018 local authority allocations for the dedicated schools grant (DSG) and the education services grant (ESG) transitional grant by 20 December 2016.
We will also confirm the arrangements for ESG protection for academies for 2017 to 2018 by this date.
3. Information: authority proforma tool (APT) guide 2017 to 2018
We will be releasing the final 2017 to 2018 authority proforma tool (APT) later today (Thursday 15 December) via the data collection portal. We will send an email to local authorities with two passwords, one detailing their portal username and password and one for their APT.
We have updated the APT 2017 to 2018 instructions for local authorities and published the schools block dataset 2017 to 2018 technical specification.
4. Information: adjustments to local authority funding related to free schools
The Department for Education (DfE) has published the government response to the consultation on recouping funding from local authorities for mainstream free schools in their first year of opening.
Recoupment is the process of deducting the funding for pupils in free schools from the schools funding given to local authorities, so funding is not provided for the same pupils twice.
5. Information: delivery data for the Youth Contract to the end of March 2016
We have published the data for delivery of EFA managed Youth Contract for 16 and 17 year olds. The data covers the whole period of the Youth Contract programme (September 2012 to March 2016).