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Schools Block 2020-21: proposed approach

£160K Growth Fund Factor values at 2020-21 NFF rates MFG at 1.84% (maximum) AWPU at NFF rate plus £92 Subject to validation checks

Schools Block Funding Allocation 2020-21

20/21 allocation = £199.7m 19/20 allocation = £188.8m Increase of £10.9m (5.7%)

Increased funding allocation for 2020-21 £5.7m increase due to change in factor values: 20/21 Provisional allocation announced in Sept 19 was £194.5m based on Oct 18 pupil data £4.2m increase due to increased pupil numbers: Final 20/21 allocation based on Oct 19 pupil data has 818 additional pupils on roll £1.0m increase due to increases in average per pupil funding: mainly due to movement from primary to secondary

Split sites

• Wellington Primary £60,000 (existing)
• St Paul’s Primary £60,000 (existing)
• Bolder Academy £60,000 (2020-21
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St Paul’s split sites funding

• The APT model does not pass all of the

£60,000 to the school due to the application

• f the Minimum Funding Guarantee
• The Council needs to apply to disapply the

MFG calculation to adjust St Paul’s funding to pass the full £60,000 to the school

• Financial impact £15,542

Bolder Academy Split Sites Funding

• Split sites funding requested for 2020-21 only
• Similar scenario to the Green School for Boys
• 2 members of Schools Forum declared an

interest

• 3 members of Schools Forum fully supported

the request

• One member supports £30k of the £60k
• 1 member was not supportive
• The Council has awarded split sites funding to

Bolder Academy

Lump sums

Each school receives a lump sum in the funding formula. This is £125,728 regardless of the size of the school Transitional arrangements where schools amalgamate Year of amalgamation – new school receives the funding from the predecessor schools Year following amalgamation - 85% predecessors schools’ lump sums Second year following amalgamation – up to 70% of the combined lump sums - requires approval.

Springwell School Springwell Junior School and Springwell Infant and Nursery School amalgamated in 19/20 The total amount of lump sum due £213,738 (85%

• f combined lump sum)

The APT model allocates £125,728 A disapplication request needs to be made to allocate an additional lump sum of £88,010 to arrive at the total lump sum due

Southville Primary School

• Southville infant and Nursery and Southville Junior

School amalgamated in 18/19

• Loss of lump sum was raised as a concern by the

Governing Bodies in the consultation exercise

• Cabinet decision includes agreement to apply for year 2

lump sum protection. Noted by the schools adjudicator

• The lump sum due is £176,019 (70% of the combined

lump sum)

• Disapplication request to allocate a further £50,291 to

arrive at the total lump sum

Overall

Appendix 2 shows the provisional 2020-21 funding per school based on:

• Formula factors at NFF with AWPU at NFF plus £92
• £160,000 Growth fund
• 3 schools with split sites funding
• 2 schools with transitional lump sum funding
• Subject to ESFA validation checks
• Note that the SEN Centre data on the proforma is

incomplete

Overall 57 Schools have a higher funding allocation than the previous year due. For these schools: Total increase in budget = £12.1m = average increase of 9% per school = average increase in funding of £212k per school

Overall 15 Schools have a lower funding allocation than previous year due to falling pupil numbers. For these schools: Total reduction in roll = 479 (average reduction of 9.5% per school) Total reduction in budget = £1.2m (average reduction of 5% per school)