Policy papers and consultations

Information about the 2023 Spring Budget announcement on early years entitlements and associated funding.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 19 April 2024

• Childminder start-up grants scheme update: September 2023

  Applications for the childminder start-up grants scheme are now open.…

• Childminder start-up grants scheme update: April 2023

  Following the announcement of the new start-up grant for childminders at…

• Early education entitlements and funding update: March 2023

  In the government’s spring budget, the Chancellor announced transformative…

Details of the funding system for schools and high needs.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 13 October 2023

Statements and data summarising the educational context and priorities for developing a system led by trusts in EIAs.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 31 May 2023

We are seeking views on our approach to implementing the direct national funding formula (NFF) for mainstream schools.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 26 April 2023

We are seeking views on proposed updates to the early years funding formulae, and maintained nursery school supplementary funding.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 16 December 2022

We are seeking views on the approach to completing our reforms to the National Funding Formula.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 28 March 2022

We’re seeking views on proposals to reform how local authorities’ school improvement functions are funded.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 11 January 2022

We're seeking views on our proposals to provide greater support to small, remote schools through the national funding formula's sparsity factor in 2022 to 2023.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 19 July 2021

We’re seeking views on proposals to attach conditions to the payment made to local authorities of the school improvement monitoring and brokering grant.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 1 July 2021

We’re seeking views on proposed changes to the high needs national funding formula (NFF), forming a part of the high needs NFF review.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 10 February 2021

We are seeking views on revised arrangements for the dedicated schools grant.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 30 January 2020

We’re seeking views on how to implement the minimum per pupil funding levels on a mandatory basis in local 5 to 16 school funding formulae.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 19 December 2019

The government’s response to the Education Select Committee’s 10th report of session 2017 to 2019 on school and college funding.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 24 October 2019

Call for evidence on the financial arrangements for children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND) and those who need alternative provision (AP).

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 3 May 2019

We're seeking views on a proposed end date for eligible teachers to make Golden Hello claims to academies or LEAs in England.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 16 May 2018

We are seeking views on the implementation of the changes to the criteria for agreeing loan schemes.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 22 March 2018

We are seeking views on changes to the guidance for agreeing loans for local-authority-maintained schools.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 22 March 2018

We are inviting views on our proposals for free school meals eligibility and early years pupil premium eligibility under Universal Credit.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 21 March 2018

Assessment of impact of the new proposed eligibility criteria for free school meals and EYPP under Universal Credit.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 7 February 2018

We are seeking views on the detailed design of the schools national funding formula.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 14 September 2017