ESFA Update local authorities: 13 March 2019
Published 13 March 2019
Applies to England
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1. Reminder: ‘Understanding your data’ feedback survey closes Tuesday 19 March 2019
In June 2018, we published ‘Understanding your data; a guide for school governors and academy trustees’, to help you collect the right data for your school or academy trust, and to help you make use of this data to improve the performance of your school or academy trust.
We want to improve this resource to ensure it continues to meet your needs, and we would value your feedback, through completion of our survey.
The survey is confidential and takes less than 10 minutes to complete.
2. Information: teachers’ pay grant for the 2019 to 2020 financial year
The Department for Education (DfE) has published revised rates for the teachers’ pay grant for the 2019 to 2020 financial year. This small revision reflects a correction to the primary school rates, to account for a double counting issue identified last year.
We will publish school level allocations for mainstream schools and academies, and local authority level allocations for high needs for the 2019 to 2020 financial year in April 2019. There will be two payments, one in spring 2019 and one in autumn 2019.
Academies will be paid using these rates for the period April 2020 to August 2020. We will confirm further funding information as part of the wider spending review.
We will confirm funding arrangements for maintained schools for the 2020 to 2021 financial year as part of the spending review.
3. Information: free school meals supplementary grant 2018 to 2019
We recently published the free school meals supplementary grant allocations and conditions of grant for the 2018 to 2019 financial year.
The free school meals supplementary grant provides schools with extra funding to help them meet the higher costs of providing extra meals before the lagged funding system catches up. This follows the introduction of Universal Credit, which increases the number of pupils eligible for free school meals.
Read our guidance for more information.
4. Information: dedicated schools grant (DSG) recoupment guidance for 2019 to 2020
We have published details of the DSG recoupment process for the 2019 to 2020 financial year.
Recoupment is the method we use to adjust a local authority’s DSG allocation when maintained schools convert to academy status.