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Schools Forum
02 October 2014
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Schools Forum Membership
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Refer to Report
• Primary Headteacher’s Group have been asked to seek
representation (3 primary headteachers)
• The Special Headteacher’s Group have been asked to seek
representation for their (1 headteacher).
• If agree to recommendation below there will be 2 primary
governor vacancies and 1 secondary maintained headteacher
vacancies
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Recommendation
• In line with the constitution, to seek resignation/removal from the
Schools Forum for anyone who has missed in excess of 3
meetings (in a row) with no extenuating circumstances, and
seek alternative representation.
• Where terms of office are up for renewal, and members have
not breached attendance rules to seek renewal
• To ask the academy group to consider whether there should be
representation from primary, Free Schools/UTCs within their
group, and to consider how all parties can be represented
Voting: All
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Schools Forum Funding SubGroup: Feedback
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Refer to Report
• Sub-group met on the 4th July and received information on:
– Outturn position and budget monitoring - Early Years and High Needs;
– Fair Funding Consultation;
– Contribution to combined budgets (including Early Intervention &
Prevention),
– Parental fine process and income,
– De-delegated Services with a focus on Trade Unions.
• The meeting focused on providing information, and there are no
recommendations to made to the Schools Forum
• Next Meeting: 10th October 2014
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Fair Funding Consultation
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Schools Forum Response
• Consultation closes tomorrow
• If Schools Forum agreeable we
will capture your group response
• A number of issues you will be
aware of already
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Introduction
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• Purpose of consultation
• Encourage responses
• Understand implications
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DFE Directed Changes
DSG Budget Implications
Local Formula Changes
High Needs Block
Early Years
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DFE Directed Changes: Fairer Schools
Funding 15/16
• Consultation launched in March
• Fairer School Funding Arrangements issued
July 2014
• Additional £390m for lowest funded LAs
• Coventry will not receive any of this funding
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DFE Directed Changes: Non-recoupment
Academies & Free School Funding
• Funding for all schools included in the DSG.
• Coventry has no Non-Recoupment
Academies
• Coventry currently has 3 Free Schools and
more in pipeline
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DFE: Directed Changes: Schools Forum
Membership
School Forum Functions
• Agree de-delegation for a range of services on primary sector’s
behalf
• Make decisions in relation to centrally held spend for a number of
services
• Has the opportunity to feed into the debate and discussion in relation
to national direction of school funding
• Supports and influences local implementation of national funding
policy
• Current Membership & Vacancies…
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School Forum Membership - Changes
• EFA are proposing minor changes to existing
regulations:
• extend membership to include;
– a representative of alternative provision (AP) academies and free schools
– representatives of special academies and special free schools (nb.)
• extend the forum’s consultation role to include;
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the special places to be commissioned by the authority in different
institutions, and the arrangements for paying top-up funding
– the AP places to be commissioned by the authority and by schools in Pupil
Referral Units and other providers of AP, and the arrangements for paying
top-up funding.
Nb. Although there are currently academy representatives on the forum these are not phase
specific and this change introduces specific ‘Special Academy' representation.
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Budget Implications: National Funding
2015-16
• DSG is cash limited
– No inflation or cost pressures reflected in the funding
• Pupil Premium Grant
– Significant increases, expecting this to continue BUT plateau
• 2011-12 £0.6bn nationally
• 2014-15 £2.5bn nationally
• Funding changes to Early Years
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Budget Implications: Cost
Pressures 2015-16
• Pensions
– Officers
2014/15 increase of 3.6% (local pressure)
2015/16 further increase of 2.9%.
– Teaching 2015/16 increase of 2.3% to 16.4%.
• City wide impact estimates:
– >£2m Teachers (full year impact),
– >£1m Officers
• Current Inflation: RPI 2.5% / CPI 1.6%
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Local Formula Changes
• De-delegated services
– Covered elsewhere on agenda
• Growth Fund
– Covered elsewhere on agenda
• Falling Rolls Fund
– Covered elsewhere on agenda
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Local Formula Changes
• Split Site Factor
– DFE require that the eligibility criteria and formula for providing extra funding
through the split site factor be set out in the APT
• Funding Formula Factor that allows for additional costs of
running a school on multiple sites
• Propose not to change factor criteria 15/16
• Carry out a review during 2015/16 and report back to
School Forum
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High Needs Block
1) High Needs Banded Framework
• Top-up funding based on pupil need (not setting)
• A Banded Framework
– To determine ‘Pupil Need’ in line with SEN COP
– To determine funding attributable to that need
• Working Group set up
2) Commissioned High Needs Places
• 26 new places commissioned in Special Schools
• May be partially funded by EFA – No Guarantee
• Cost will be met from within funding envelope
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Early Years Funding – For Info…
• DfE consultation issued 25th June, closed 22nd August.
1) Early Years Pupil Premium Grant
• Additional resource for disadvantaged 3 & 4 years olds
• Will be introduced April 2015
• Pay providers additional £300 per year for each eligible child that
takes up the full 570 hours
• Eligible Groups: low income families; LAC; adopted from care; special
guardianship; child arrangement orders.
2) 2 Year Old Funding
• Move to participation funding
• DFE to confirm per child funding rates during Sept 2014
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Financial Update
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Update 2015/16 – Local Authority
• By 2016 Coventry will have had its government
funding cut by nearly a half since 2010
• Further, significant savings will be needed across
services.
• Current estimate is that additional savings of
approximately £60million a year will need to be
implemented by 2017/18
• Further discussion and briefings with members to
take place
• Followed by a public consultation in relation to
budgetary savings and reductions
• 4th round of ER/VR now open, to date 1000 staff
exited in this way
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Update 2015/16 – DSG Funding
• Cash-limited
• Unknowns
– October census
– 2 year old mainstreaming of offer
– High needs – case for growth
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Pupil Premium – plateaued
Early Years – pupil premium
Early Years - participation
Changing arrangements – free schools
Reserves contribution
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Update 2015/16 – DSG Cost Pressures
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Pensions – officers and teachers
Inflation – pay and energy
High needs growth
Falling Rolls Fund
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DSG PPR - 2015/16
1 Additional Forecast Resources
1.1 Adjustment Previous Years DSG
1.2 Increase in Dedicated Schools Grant - Pupil/Place Number
1.3 Increase in Dedicated Schools Grant - Other
1.4 Adjustment to Early Years (participation 2 year olds)
1.5 National Topslice - CRC
1.6 Contribution from Reserves
Total increase in Dedicated Schools Grant
2 Baseline adjustment
2.1 Removal of one off funding (14/15 Reserves)
Total Baseline Adjustment
Sub-Total
Early
High
Years Schools Needs
Block Block Block Total
(£000) (£000) (£000) (£000)
(9)
(9)
0
0
0
500
491
34
451
15
25
451
15
(224)
(797)
(157)
(224)
(797)
(157)
(1,178)
(1,178)
(199)
(346)
(142)
(687)
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DSG PPR - 2015/16
Early
High
Years Schools Needs
Block Block Block
(£000) (£000) (£000)
Total
(£000)
3 Pressures and savings
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
3.16
3.17
3.18
3.19
Adjustments to Base Budget/Technical Adjustments
Pay awards - officers (estimated)
Pay awards - teachers (estimated)
Price and Income Inflation (estimated)
Local Government Superannuation - employer contribution
Teachers Superannuation - employer contribution
Change in Pupil Numbers
NNDR
Additional Primary High Needs Places
Growth Fund
Growth Fund - Falling Rolls
Post 16 High Needs Adjustments
High Needs Place Adjustments
Living Wage (1-off)
SEND 1 -off
Early Years Single Funding Formula
Early Years - 2 Year olds provision
Early Years - 2 Year olds capital contribution
Licenses
High Needs Place Adjustments
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29
469
925
104
92
67
38
797
1,116
173
92
(19)
0
(326)
(8)
(85)
607
1,046
0
1,037
1,246
0
(19)
0
0
0
0
0
(334)
(85)
0
0
0
0
0
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DSG PPR - 2015/16
Early
High
Years Schools Needs
Block Block Block Total
(£000) (£000) (£000) (£000)
4 Budget Proposals
Total Pressures
5 DSG (Not Earmarked)
5.1 Headroom/Efficiency Savings
6 (Under allocated)/Overallocated
168
2,962
368
3,498
(235) (3,158)
(105)
(3,498)
121
(687)
(266)
(542)
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MFG Disapplication Requests
• Refer to report
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De-delegated Services
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Background
• The 2013-14 reform directed that a number of
centrally held budgets be delegated to schools.
• Learning & Behaviour Support Service, MGSS, Free
School Meal eligibility, licences/subscriptions, and
staff costs supply cover (maternity and trade union)
• Mainstream schools can opt to de-delegate (agree a
local pooling arrangement to allow the function/
service to continue)
• 2014/15 Primaries opted to de-delegate all with the
exception of MGSS – now offered as traded service
except for new arrivals
• 2014/15 Secondaries opted to de-delegate FSM
eligibility, Maternity, Licenses & Subscriptions
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Decision
• Mainstream school reps on the Schools Forum to
vote on de-delegation arrangements for 2015/16
• Further discussion at Funding Sub-group to facilitate
decision making
De-delegated Amounts (Excluding Academies)
Nursery
Class
Free school meal eligibility
Primary
Secondary
Total
0
19,171
4,653
23,824
897
53,448
12,243
66,588
Maternity/special staffing
suspension
23,511
336,662
77,118
437,291
Trade Union facility
12,006
184,903
0
196,909
277,737
374,461
90,973
743,171
0
283,774
0
283,774
314,151
1,252,419
184,987
1,751,557
Licences/subscriptions
MGSS
Behaviour support services
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Growth Fund & Falling Roles
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Growth Fund 15/16 – Refer to report
Increasing Form of Entry:
• Basic Need - agreement with the LA to provide an extra
class from the next September to support basic need
• Funding support Reception & Key Stage 1 only
Class Size Funding:
• Funding is provided to a school or academy where
overall pupil numbers in Reception or in Key Stage 1
exceed a multiple of 30 (as at the previous October
Census).
• ‘Exempt’ pupils to be excluded
• Largely same arrangements as previous
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Growth Fund - Decision 15/16
• The Schools Forum should agree to the continued
holding of some resource centrally to support additional
classes needed to meet the infant class size regulation,
and to support growth in pre-16 pupil numbers to meet
basic need
• The Schools Forum should agree to the proposed
criteria for the growth fund
• Please note the final amount within the growth fund is determined
by October 13 census. Therefore the amount will be ratified as part
of the budget setting process at a future meeting.
• Voting: All Members
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Falling Rolls 15/16 – Refer to report
• New from 2014-15
• Fund to support a school or academy where a
population bulge is expected in the future (within 2-3
years), but which currently has surplus places
• This can only be applied where the institution has an
OFSTED judgement of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’
• Did not implement in 14/15, but agreed to review
annually
• Currently an issue in the secondary sector, but any
criteria would affect all schools
• Schools Forum Funding Sub-group to look at and make
recommendations to Schools Forum
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Falling Rolls fund continued
– Eligibility Criteria examples
• Surplus capacity exceeds 5% of the published
admission number
• Local planning data shows a requirement for
at least 50% of the surplus places within the
next 3 years
– Funding methodology examples
• £x per vacant place, up to a specified
maximum places
• A lump sum payment with clear parameters
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Central Services Expenditure
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Refer to report: Central Services
Expenditure
• Number of areas of central expenditure budget
which the Schools Forum must approve. These
cannot exceed the value of the budget in 2012/13.
• Recommending that in line with last year we
delegate the detail of this work to the Schools Forum
Funding Sub group
• Group to make recommendations to the January
Forum Meeting.
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High Needs Funding
Methodology: Special Schools
Formula
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Introduction
• Current Position
– 13/14 Funding Reform  Place-Plus model
– Average top-up rate Linked to Institution/Institution type
• Proposed New Approach
– A Banded Framework with top-up based on pupil need not setting
– Need determined in line with new SEN code of practice
– Potential to extend approach to cover all institutions
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Progress
• Group has met twice so far
– Key Principles and Terms of Reference agreed
• Developed approach to assessing pupil need
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Looked at other LA’s frameworks
Developed Coventry approach
Initial sampling to see how this operates for current pupils
Further work being undertaken to finalise framework
• Next Steps
– Full High Needs population to be mapped to new framework
– Working group to begin looking at new funding rates