Agenda item 4 - MTFS (Final) Cab 070213 , item 9. PDF 1 MB

Any increase in a school’s deprivation, SEN or EAL numbers would therefore be funded at
the unit values quoted in the draft budgets.
Next steps
Following the announcement of the 2013/14 DSG on the 19th December 2012 and the
release of the final dataset from the DfE, final school budget calculations and checks will
now be made in order to meet the 22nd January 2013 deadline for submission of the
funding factor pro forma to the EFA.
The DfE deadline for issuing school budgets has been revised to 15th March 2013. It is
anticipated however that acceptance of the pro forma submission will be received from the
EFA in February 2013, at which point final budgets will be able to be issued to schools.
Top up funding for high needs pupils will be calculated using a spot date position in
January or February 2013 and this will be included in the budget notifications to schools.
Funding changes for movements in high needs pupils will then be applied on a monthly
basis.
Academies will continue to be funded according to the 2012/13 statement funding rules
until the end of the 2012/13 academic year. From the 1 st September 2013 they will then
switch to the new high needs funding system. Maintained schools will have the new funding
system applied from 1 st April 2013.
A school funding report providing further details relating to the DSG settlement and new
dataset was considered at the 9th January 2013 Schools Forum.
Two year old funding
Since 2009 local authorities have been delivering a ‘targeted offer’ of between 10 and 15
hours a week of free pre-school education to some of the most disadvantaged two year
olds. However, in November 2010 the Government announced that, from September 2013,
the most disadvantaged 20% of two year olds will receive a statutory entitlement to 15
hours a week of free pre-school education. This entitlement will also be extended to 40% of
two year olds from September 2014 - for details please see the relevant Cabinet report on
this agenda.
Initial funding to support preparations for the build-up in provision for the new entitlement,
in advance of the September 2013 roll out, was identified in Early Intervention Grant (EIG)
allocations for 2011/12 and 2012/13. In May 2012 the Government confirmed funding for
two year olds’ entitlement would be transferred from EIG to the Dedicated Schools Grant
(DSG) from 2013/14, to reflect the statutory nature of the entitlement from September
2013. Allocations for the Council in 2013/14 are, statutory entitlement £2.854 million and
trajectory building funding £1.12 million. These amounts are within DSG for 2013/14 and
funding will no longer be ring fenced.
Estimated Balances – DSG 2012/13
The forecast position for DSG under-spends including the carry forward from 2011/12 is
estimated to be £6.1 million at 31 st March 2013. It was agreed that unspent funds from
2011/12 would be retained until the likely impact of the school funding reforms were known.
This represents 1.6% of DSG and balances are set out below.
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