Transcript Somerset County Council

Schools Forum: 24 November 2010
Agenda Item 3B
Services for Children and
Young People in Somerset
Working Assumptions for
Budget Planning
Susan Fielden
November 2010
Budget Planning – Key Issues
• Further savings required in LA budgets in
2011/12
• Proposal for Early Intervention Grant
• Schools Budget planning and the impact
of the “Compact” discussions
And within the above:
• Equality Impact Assessments
• Risk Management
Further Savings on 2011/12 LA
Budgets….
• Bring forward savings planned for years 2
and 3 into year 1
• Quantify any year 1 savings in transport
provision as a result of the work of the
Task and Finish Group
• Propose savings against the new Early
Intervention Grant
• Reduce bids for additional funding
Early Intervention Grant (EIG) – the
numbers
• DfE expected to end most, if not all Area Based Grants
and Sure Start grant and replace with a new Early
Intervention Grant which is not ring-fenced
• Distribution formula yet to be announced
• Estimated current SCC baseline £19.3m, of which
£15.6m is not ABG
• ABG has already been taken into account in corporate
and CYPD planning
• Sure Start funding was referred to in the CSR as being
protected at “flat cash”
• Assume non-ABG related EIG is £15.6m for 2011/12
• Consider a proposal that recognises both the uncertainty
and the need to balance remaining LA budget, with a
range of options
Early Intervention Grant – the
scope?
• Early Intervention across the full age range, with children and
families
• Refocused provision through Childrens Centres?
• Sustaining the quality and sufficiency of early years and childcare
provision?
 Respond to Scrutiny Committee concerns about provision for
vulnerable children and young people?
 Help to span the space between Social Care Pods and staff in
schools and early years provision?
 Provision for disabled children, consistent with the Aiming High
principles, could be included where this is locally effective and of
priority?
 Address key issues arising from Equality Impact and Risk
Assessments?
 Recognise contribution made to management, administration,
running costs and overheads from predecessor grants
Schools Budget – the numbers
• DSG – assume cash protection (no inflation) and loss of
eligible pupils (falling rolls and change in treatment of
EHE pupils)
• Grant Transfer – baseline £44.1m, split ISB £37.9m, E/Y
£3.4m and central £2.8m – need to assume pro-rata
reduction re drop in pupil numbers and no inflation
• No news yet on Music grant or on ABG relating
specifically to educational achievement and school
improvement
• No information yet on the size of the Pupil Premium or
the method of distribution
• Schools Budget announcements will be for one year only
with rumours of development of a national formula for
school funding….
Schools Budget – the “Compact” discussions – working
together to use resources wisely for children
Core
entitlement
and regulatory
functions regulatory and
statutory,
funded from
LA and central
Schools
Budget, with
Schools
Forum
approval - for
children,
schools and
families
Discretionary services, jointly
commissioned between the LA and
schools/early years providers,
funded from the central Schools
Budget with Schools Forum
approval
Note: the scope of each element may differ
between phases
Activities funded from delegated
budgets including traded
services (provided by the LA
and/or other providers)
Schools Budget – some of the
issues and uncertainties….
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Explicit capacity to develop and maintain the collaborative arrangements
between the LA and schools
Fair and transparent provision across all providers across both delegated
and central provision
Identification of headroom through Voluntary Redundancy and service
changes together with pressures and changing priorities – work through
priorities with representatives from school and other providers as part of the
emerging “Compact” discussion
Resolve complex funding arrangements for early years support and
vulnerable children (links with EIG)
Understand implications of the White Paper, including alternative provision
and the management of exclusions
Resolve funding arrangements for ICT provision for schools
Consider ongoing support for schools improvement and the quality of
provision
Provision for leadership, management, overheads and business support
Consider Equality Impact Assessments (see separate paper)
Key Dates
• Schools Forum – 24 November
• SMB and Cabinet – 26 November and 6
December
• SGSG – 1 December and SEPT 9
December
• “Compact” Working Group – 14 December
• Formal meeting of the Cabinet – 15
December
• Full Council – 22 December