Guidance

School improvement monitoring and brokering grant allocations April 2022

Updated 24 October 2022

Applies to England

Introduction

The school improvement (SI) monitoring and brokering grant was announced on 30 November 2016. The grant has been allocated to local authorities since September 2017 to allow them to continue to monitor performance of maintained schools, broker school improvement provision, and intervene as appropriate. This document sets out allocations to cover the period April 2022 to August 2022.

On 29 October 2021, we launched a consultation on future of the grant beyond March 2022. This proposed that in future these functions be funded from maintained school budgets and that we reduce the grant by 50% in 2022 to 2023 ahead of full removal in 2023 to 2024.

The consultation closed on 26 November 2021 and we published our government response ‘Reforming how local authority school improvement functions are funded’ on 11 January, announcing we would implement the proposals consulted on.

Modelling

Please note that:

• funding is distributed to all eligible local authorities (excluding City of London and Isles of Scilly) to cover the period April 2022 to August 2022

• the minimum amount of funding a local authority can receive for the period September 2021 to August 2022 is £50,000

• local authorities who received the minimum amount of funding in October 2021 and who are due to receive the minimum amount of funding for the whole of academic year 2021 to 2022 will not receive an additional grant allocation

• the allocations are made on a per eligible school basis for those schools deemed open on 1 April 2022

  • eligible schools are schools run by local authorities, including special schools and PRUs, for pupils aged 5 to 16

  • the list used was extracted from Get Information About Schools as at April 2022

• the general labour market area cost adjustment (GLM ACA) factor used matches the ACA used in the central school services block of the 2021 to 2022 national funding formula

Methodology

Please note that:

• for each local authority, the number of eligible schools was multiplied by its GLM ACA rate to calculate a weighted number of schools

• each local authority’s number of weighted eligible schools was multiplied by the weighted school funding unit of £665.52 to calculate the initial grant allocation for the period April 2022 to August 2022 – that is 50% of the pro-rated per school funding levels when the grant was established in October 2017

• this initial grant allocation for each local authority was added to their provisional grant allocation calculated in October 2021 to give a total preliminary allocation for the period September 2021 to August 2022. This figure is calculated before the minimum funding of £50,000 is applied

• any local authorities falling below the minimum amount of funding for the academic year 2021 to 2022 will be checked against the final allocations made in October 2021 to ensure that they received the minimum funding in full, and will not receive an additional grant allocation in April 2022

• any local authorities who received the minimum of funding in October 2021 but are due more than the minimum for the whole academic year will receive an additional grant allocation calculated as the initial allocation for the full academic year less the minimum funding of £50,000 already paid

• local authorities who received more than the minimum funding level in October 2021 will receive their initial allocation for the period April 2022 to August 2022 in full

Payments

The allocations covering this period will be paid in in April 2022.

Table of final allocations for April 2022 to August 2022

LA code	LA name	Area cost adjust- ment	April 2022 number of schools	April 2022 weighted number of schools	April 2022 weighted schools after minimum	April 2022 to August 2022 allocation after minimum funding applied
202	Camden	1.30	53	69.08	69.08	£45,973
203	Greenwich	1.30	54	70.38	70.38	£46,841
204	Hackney	1.30	60	78.20	78.20	£52,045
205	Hammersmith and Fulham	1.30	28	36.49	36.49	£24,288
206	Islington	1.30	51	66.47	66.47	£44,238
207	Kensington and Chelsea	1.30	27	35.19	35.19	£23,420
208	Lambeth	1.30	65	84.72	84.72	£56,382
209	Lewisham	1.30	73	95.15	95.15	£63,321
210	Southwark	1.30	68	88.63	88.63	£58,984
211	Tower Hamlets	1.30	70	91.24	91.24	£60,719
212	Wandsworth	1.30	56	72.99	72.99	£48,575
213	Westminster	1.30	36	46.92	46.92	£31,227
301	Barking and Dagenham	1.11	42	46.54	46.54	£30,974
302	Barnet	1.17	86	100.37	100.37	£66,796
303	Bexley	1.11	18	19.95	19.95	£3,099
304	Brent	1.17	52	60.69	60.69	£40,388
305	Bromley	1.11	7	7.76	0.00	£0
306	Croydon	1.11	39	43.22	43.22	£28,762
307	Ealing	1.17	74	86.36	86.36	£57,476
308	Enfield	1.11	57	63.16	63.16	£42,037
309	Haringey	1.11	62	68.70	68.70	£45,724
310	Harrow	1.17	32	37.35	37.35	£24,854
311	Havering	1.11	42	46.54	46.54	£30,974
312	Hillingdon	1.17	49	57.19	57.19	£38,058
313	Hounslow	1.17	51	59.52	59.52	£39,612
314	Kingston upon Thames	1.17	29	33.84	33.84	£22,524
315	Merton	1.17	47	54.85	54.85	£36,505
316	Newham	1.11	40	44.33	44.33	£29,499
317	Redbridge	1.11	60	66.49	66.49	£44,249
318	Richmond upon Thames	1.17	42	49.02	49.02	£32,621
319	Sutton	1.17	24	28.01	28.01	£18,641
320	Waltham Forest	1.11	41	45.43	45.43	£30,237
330	Birmingham	1.01	194	196.37	196.37	£130,686
331	Coventry	1.01	60	60.73	60.73	£40,418
332	Dudley	1.01	62	62.76	62.76	£41,766
333	Sandwell	1.01	76	76.93	76.93	£51,197
334	Solihull	1.01	43	43.52	43.52	£28,967
335	Walsall	1.01	73	73.89	73.89	£49,176
336	Wolverhampton	1.01	44	44.54	44.54	£29,640
340	Knowsley	1.00	43	43.17	43.17	£28,733
341	Liverpool	1.00	132	132.53	132.53	£88,204
342	St. Helens	1.00	56	56.23	56.23	£37,420
343	Sefton	1.00	80	80.32	80.32	£53,457
344	Wirral	1.00	92	92.37	92.37	£61,476
350	Bolton	1.02	82	83.62	83.62	£55,649
351	Bury	1.02	53	54.04	54.04	£35,968
352	Manchester	1.02	107	109.11	109.11	£72,615
353	Oldham	1.02	65	66.28	66.28	£44,112
354	Rochdale	1.02	69	70.36	70.36	£46,826
355	Salford	1.02	77	78.52	78.52	£52,255
356	Stockport	1.02	90	91.77	91.77	£61,078
357	Tameside	1.02	57	58.12	58.12	£38,683
358	Trafford	1.02	61	62.20	62.20	£41,397
359	Wigan	1.02	96	97.89	97.89	£65,150
370	Barnsley	1.00	35	35.00	35.00	£23,293
371	Doncaster	1.00	37	37.00	37.00	£24,624
372	Rotherham	1.00	26	26.00	26.00	£17,304
373	Sheffield	1.00	73	73.00	73.00	£48,583
380	Bradford	1.00	77	77.04	77.04	£51,275
381	Calderdale	1.00	54	54.03	54.03	£35,959
382	Kirklees	1.00	111	111.06	111.06	£73,916
383	Leeds	1.00	176	176.10	176.10	£117,200
384	Wakefield	1.00	54	54.03	54.03	£35,959
390	Gateshead	1.00	59	59.00	59.00	£39,266
391	Newcastle upon Tyne	1.00	38	38.00	38.00	£25,290
392	North Tyneside	1.00	65	65.00	65.00	£43,259
393	South Tyneside	1.00	38	38.00	38.00	£25,290
394	Sunderland	1.00	39	39.00	39.00	£25,955
800	Bath and North East Somerset	1.05	7	7.37	0.00	£0
801	Bristol, City of	1.05	52	54.75	54.75	£36,434
802	North Somerset	1.05	12	12.63	0.00	£0
803	South Gloucestershire	1.05	84	88.43	88.43	£58,855
805	Hartlepool	1.00	15	15.00	0.00	£0
806	Middlesbrough	1.00	12	12.00	0.00	£0
807	Redcar and Cleveland	1.00	9	9.00	0.00	£0
808	Stockton-on-Tees	1.00	21	21.00	21.00	£7,900
810	Kingston upon Hull, City of	1.00	3	3.00	0.00	£0
811	East Riding of Yorkshire	1.00	108	108.00	108.00	£71,876
812	North East Lincolnshire	1.00	8	8.00	0.00	£0
813	North Lincolnshire	1.00	51	51.00	51.00	£33,942
815	North Yorkshire	1.00	227	227.00	227.00	£151,073
816	York	1.00	24	24.00	24.00	£15,886
821	Luton	1.06	41	43.32	43.32	£28,831
822	Bedford	1.06	37	39.09	39.09	£26,018
823	Central Bedfordshire	1.06	63	66.57	66.57	£44,302
825	Buckinghamshire	1.11	153	169.21	169.21	£112,616
826	Milton Keynes	1.10	67	73.94	73.94	£49,209
830	Derbyshire	1.00	268	268.00	268.00	£178,359
831	Derby	1.00	29	29.00	29.00	£19,300
838	Dorset	1.00	67	67.00	67.00	£44,590
839	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	1.00	16	16.00	0.00	£0
840	County Durham	1.00	162	162.00	162.00	£107,814
841	Darlington	1.00	4	4.00	0.00	£0
845	East Sussex	1.01	115 1	15.70	115.70	£77,003
846	Brighton and Hove	1.01	60	60.37	60.37	£40,175
850	Hampshire	1.05	459	482.51	482.51	£321,123
851	Portsmouth	1.05	18	18.92	18.92	£4,570
852	Southampton	1.05	42	44.15	44.15	£29,384
855	Leicestershire	1.00	86	86.00	86.00	£57,235
856	Leicester	1.00	63	63.00	63.00	£41,928
857	Rutland	1.00	3	3.00	0.00	£0
860	Staffordshire	1.00	136	136.00	136.00	£90,511
861	Stoke-on-Trent	1.00	14	14.00	0.00	£0
865	Wiltshire	1.03	123	126.19	126.19	£83,979
866	Swindon	1.03	22	22.57	22.57	£15,021
867	Bracknell Forest	1.15	27	31.01	31.01	£20,636
868	Windsor and Maidenhead	1.15	34	39.05	39.05	£25,986
869	West Berkshire	1.13	67	75.41	75.41	£50,185
870	Reading	1.13	29	32.64	32.64	£21,722
871	Slough	1.15	11	12.63	0.00	£0
872	Wokingham	1.13	34	38.27	38.27	£25,467
873	Cambridgeshire	1.05	121	126.61	126.61	£84,262
874	Peterborough	1.05	27	28.25	28.25	£18,802
876	Halton	1.01	45	45.59	45.59	£30,341
877	Warrington	1.01	52	52.68	52.68	£35,060
878	Devon	1.00	171	171.00	171.00	£113,804
879	Plymouth	1.00	19	19.00	19.00	£579
880	Torbay	1.00	8	8.00	0.00	£0
881	Essex	1.04	236	244.30	244.30	£162,586
882	Southend-on-Sea	1.01	11	11.14	0.00	£0
883	Thurrock	1.08	1	1.08	0.00	£0
884	Herefordshire	1.00	64	64.00	64.00	£42,593
885	Worcestershire	1.00	115	115.00	115.00	£76,535
886	Kent	1.01	308	312.18	312.18	£207,765
887	Medway	1.00	27	27.07	27.07	£18,015
888	Lancashire	1.00	537	537.00	537.00	£357,384
889	Blackburn with Darwen	1.00	51	51.00	51.00	£33,942
890	Blackpool	1.00	17	17.00	0.00	£0
891	Nottinghamshire	1.01	173	174.73	174.73	£116,285
892	Nottingham	1.01	32	32.32	32.32	£21,509
893	Shropshire	1.00	85	85.00	85.00	£56,569
894	Telford and Wrekin	1.00	50	50.00	50.00	£33,277
895	Cheshire East	1.01	59	59.77	59.77	£39,780
896	Cheshire West and Chester	1.01	118	119.55	119.55	£79,560
908	Cornwall	1.00	57	57.00	57.00	£37,935
909	Cumbria	1.00	242	242.00	242.00	£161,056
916	Gloucestershire	1.02	193	197.39	197.39	£131,367
919	Hertfordshire	1.10	355	391.01	391.01	£260,226
921	Isle of Wight	1.05	41	43.10	43.10	£28,684
925	Lincolnshire	1.00	171	171.00	171.00	£113,804
926	Norfolk	1.00	180	180.00	180.00	£119,794
929	Northumberland	1.00	105	105.00	105.00	£69,880
931	Oxfordshire	1.08	130	140.42	140.42	£93,453
933	Somerset	1.00	137	137.00	137.00	£91,176
935	Suffolk	1.00	103	103.01	103.01	£68,554
936	Surrey	1.15	193	221.64	221.64	£147,509
937	Warwickshire	1.03	125	128.16	128.16	£85,295
938	West Sussex	1.02	201	205.80	205.80	£136,963
940	North Northamptonshire	1.01	37	37.44	37.44	£24,916
941	West Northamptonshire	1.01	68	68.81	68.81	£45,792