Report - London Borough of Hillingdon

6.13 The second is to introduce a formula for the school. It is proposed
that the place factors and nursery factor for McMillan be the same as those for
similar sized nursery classes in maintained primary and infant schools, and
that a lump sum factor be added to recognise the responsibilities of a
separate infant school.
7. Standards Funds – Take up of grants
Advanced Skills Teachers
7.1 Schools Forum recommended that schools with Advanced Skills
Teachers be invited to make a voluntary contribution to the matched funding
for the Standards Fund for 2004/05. They recommended that, should a single
school in a sector choose not to buy back, that the grant not be taken up at all
for that sector. It is proposed to adopt this method for funding ASTs for
2004/05.
School Development Grant
7.4 The proposals for the split between the retained and devolved amounts of
the Schools Development Grant are to be consistent with the
recommendations of Schools Forum. Of the £0.416m which the LEA wished
to retain for a range of on-going SEN initiatives, £35k for the Schools SEN
Training Programme is to be devolved to schools. Of the £93k for the support
staff training and development component, funding is to be retained for
primary schools, but devolved for secondary and special schools.
8. Standards Funds – distribution issues
8.1 Standards Funds will be distributed on the basis required by the DfES in
the first instance (eg where a minimum level of budget must be provided) or,
in the absence of that, on the basis used in 2003/04.
8.2 For that part of the School Development Grant in excess of the
minimum required, this will be distributed on the basis of the PLASC January
2004 full-time equivalent pupil numbers.
9. Data in the draft budgets
9.1 Schools are invited to check the data used for their school and to alert the
School Finance Team of any errors or omissions. There are some aspects to
the data to which schools need to pay particular attention:
a) Nursery sizes. Where there is evidence of a significant variation
between the actual number of pupils enrolled for a nursery class and
the number of places for which that nursery is funded, the LEA will
propose to increase or decrease the size of the funding. The schools
identified below are ones where officers have identified such
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