Guidance

Improving efficiency in schools

Document providing information on the available data on schools’ expenditure.

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This report on schools spending and efficiency has been withdrawn because the content may not be up-to-date. See our up-to-date guidance and tools on school resource management. See DfE statistics for the latest data on local authority and schools spending.

Documents

Improving efficiency in schools

Details

This document provides information to help parents and the wider public use the newly available data on schools’ expenditure to compare schools and hold their local schools to account for their spending.

The document sets out the main areas of schools’ spending, the range in expenditure between similar schools and examples of potential savings for different expenditure categories.

Published 1 October 2010