Guidance and regulation

Statutory guidance for local authorities on producing and amending school financing schemes.

• From: Department for Education and 1 others
• Updated: 28 March 2024

• Schemes for financing local authority maintained schools 2024 to 2025

  1. Summary 1.1 About this guidance This is issue 16 of statutory guidance…

High needs reforms and savings targets have been agreed for local authorities with the highest dedicated school grant deficits.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 21 March 2024

Information about how we calculate the adjustment of the dedicated schools grant allocation

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 14 February 2024

• Academies and dedicated schools grant 2024 to 2025: calculation of recoupment

  1. Introduction This guide explains how we, the Education and Skills…

• Academies and dedicated schools grant 2023 to 2024: calculation of recoupment

  1. Introduction This guide explains how we, the Education and Skills…

Funding to support schools facing unexpected or imminent failure to improve in areas such as leadership, governance, safeguarding, human resources and finance.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 23 February 2023

Funding for local authorities to spend on home-to-school travel for children from low-income families from 2021 to 2025.

• From: Department for Education and 2 others
• Updated: 29 February 2024

Information on how local authorities can manage their high needs systems and associated spending in a sustainable way.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 18 October 2022

Basic need capital funding allocated to each local authority to create new places from 2011 to 2026.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 25 April 2024

Important dates for payments, publications, and local authority actions in the 2023 to 2024 financial year.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 2 May 2023

Guidance to help local authorities and academies account for national non-domestic rates (NNDR)

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 18 March 2024

Analysis of local authorities' schools block funding formulae.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 17 July 2023

Guidance for schools and local authorities on the teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) 2024 for March 2024 to April 2025.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 11 March 2024

Analysis of local authorities' schools block funding formulae.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 20 July 2020

Guidance for local authorities and schools on revenue funding in the 2018 to 2019 financial year.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 25 June 2018

Tables showing provisional allocations for the schools, high needs and central school services blocks from 2020 to 2021.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 9 March 2020

Guidance for local authorities on how to complete the section 151 officer return and the schools financial value standard assurance statement for the 2023 to 2024 financial year.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 22 April 2024