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Section 52 Education Budget Statement

Local Authorities are required under section 52 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to prepare a budget statement before the beginning of each financial year. After the end of that financial year they are required to prepare an outturn statement.

Purpose of the Statements
The statements are intended to:
• Provide schools, parents and others with an interest in education with details about schools and LA funding and expenditure;
• Provide data for the Department of Children, Schools & Families (DCSF) annual report and Inform policy making;
• Inform the Treasury for monitoring purposes. Inform Parliament in its role of monitoring the Department’s accountability for public funds. MPs ask about school and authority expenditure via the mechanisms of Parliamentary Questions or through the Education Select Committee.

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Section 52 Education Budget Statement

From 1 April 2008 Local Authorities and schools received a 3 year budget settlement figure, as a result tables for the current (2008/09) and next two financial years (2009/10 & 2010/11) are required to be completed and distributed.

Schools Budget Summary Table
DCSF prescribed format. Provides an account of the main sources of funding available to LAs to support their Schools Budget, including any additional funding provided by the authority. (N.B. This table is not included in 2004-05 and 2005-06 versions as it replaces Table 0 Transparent Account. )

Table 1 LA Level Information
DCSF prescribed format. Total planned spending on Education under the following headings:
Schools Budget Analysis of the Authority's budget total expenditure on schools.
LA Budget Analysis of budgeted, non-school expenditure.
Total Education Revenue Expenditure -Total of Schools budget and LA budget.
Memorandum Items Funding for Post 16 Pupils.
Total LA Expenditure on School Improvement
Capital Expenditure

Annex to Table 1 Central Expenditure Limit
DCSF prescribed format. Analysis of Central Expenditure Limits

Annex to Table 1 Early Years Table (2008/09 only)
DCSF prescribed format. Analysis of Early Years.

Annex to Table 1 Youth Service (2008/09 only)
DCSF prescribed format. Analysis of LA expenditure on the Youth Service

Table 2 School Level Information
DCSF prescribed format. Details of individual budget shares for Primary, Secondary, Special and Nursery schools over various areas of funding.

Table 2 School Level Information Memorandum Items
DCSF prescribed format.

Table 3 School Level Information
DCSF prescribed format. Details of individual school funding under each funding factor.

Table 4 Funding Factors
DCSF prescribed format. Analysis of values of funding factors and their application.


You can download the Budget Statements for 2008/09, indicative 2009/10 & indicative 2010/11 here:

This is a PDF document icon Section52 Budget Statement 2008 2009[291Kb]
This is a PDF document icon Section52 Budget Statement Indicative 2009 2010[254Kb]
This is a PDF document icon Section52 Budget Statement Indicative 2010 2011[281Kb]



Previous Years Statements

This is a PDF document icon Section52 Budget Statement 2007 2008[390Kb]
This is a PDF document icon Section 52 Education Budget Statement 2006/2007 [431Kb]
This is a PDF document icon Section 52 Education Budget Statement 2004/2005 (1500k)
This is a PDF document icon Section 52 Education Budget Statement 2005/2006 [442Kb]



Section 52 Education Outturn Statement

Summary Table – Reconciliation of Budget and Outturn:
This table provides a mapping between the Schools and LA budget statement and the outturn statement.

The budget lines of the summary table will be pre-populated by using the data provided by the LA in its previous year budget statement.

Table A
A number of lines are aligned to either the Schools or LA budget according to descriptions in the previous year budget table 1.
 
Spending by schools and LA information is also linked with the collection of Consistent Financial Framework (CFR) data from schools:

• The first part of this table is the ‘Spending by Schools section’ and are pre-populated with information taken from the CFR database (the CFR database is populate by using information from the RMBC General Ledger system CedAr).

• The second part shows the ‘Spending by LA within the Schools Budget’ excluding delegated or devolved funding.
• The third part is the section for LA central functions. It is split to school Central Administration and Support and Access sub-totals.
• The fourth part is the Youth and Community element of the table.

The Youth Service annex relates to expenditure on the LA’s Youth Service. The annex provides a further break down of expenditure shown at line 87 of Table A.

Table B is School level information. It provides a summary of individual schools’ expenditure in respect of the financial year.

This is a PDF document icon  Section 52 Outturn statement 2005-2006 [149Kb]

This is a PDF document icon Section52 Outturn Statement 2006 2007[73Kb]
This is a PDF document icon Section52 Outturn Statement 2007 2008[68Kb]