Issue - meetings
Education Services Grant
Meeting: 19/01/2017 - Schools Forum (Item 34)
Education Services Grant
Additional documents:
- ESG Retained - 2017-18 final, item 34
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- ESG Retained - 2017-18 final inc Legal HR update, item 34
PDF 368 KB
- SF Slides, item 34
PDF 225 KB
Minutes:
Ceri Walters introduced the report seeking approval to transfer the former Retained Education Services Grant (ESG) to the Local Authority. Ceri highlighted the following:
(a)
ESG is being phased out but there will be transitional funding
available until August. Academies receive this funding
direct;
(b)
ESG Retained Funding funds statutory duties for all city pupils,
whereas ESG General Duties only relates to pupils in maintained
schools;
(c) the Local Authority intends to do some benchmarking work against other authorities during the 2017/18 year to inform future decisions;
The following answers were given in response
to questions from the Forum:
(d)
there is no reason foreseen as to why any additional funding would
be required this year, however the final budget has not yet been
approved;
(e) in the 2018/19 school year ESG will be removed and funding will be paid direct to schools. Funding for these services will be treated as a de-delegated budget.
RESOLVED to
(1) approve funding to support the statutory retained duties of the Local Authority for all pupils as set out below:
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|
Total cost (£m) |
Rate per pupil (£) |
|
Director of Children’s Services and personal staff for director |
0.097 |
2.46 |
|
Planning for education service as a whole |
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|
Revenue budget preparation, preparation of information on income and expenditure relating to education, and external audit relating to education |
0.027 |
0.67 |
|
Administration of grants |
0.157 |
3.98 |
|
Authorisation and monitoring of expenditure not met from schools’ budget shares |
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Formulation and review of local authority schools funding formula |
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Provision of information to or at the request of the Crown other than relating specifically to maintained schools |
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Plans involving collaboration with other LA services or public/voluntary bodies |
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Internal audit and other tasks related to the authority’s chief finance officer’s responsibilities under Section 151 of LGA 1972 except duties specifically related to maintained schools |
0.011 |
0.28 |
|
Consultation costs relating to non-staffing issues |
0.015 |
0.38 |
|
Standing Advisory Committees for Religious Education (SACREs) |
0.004 |
0.09 |
|
Functions in relation to the exclusion of pupils from schools, excluding any provision of education to excluded pupils |
0.135 |
3.44 |
|
School attendance |
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Responsibilities regarding the employment of children |
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Management of the LA’s capital programme including preparation and review of an asset management plan, and negotiation and management of private finance transactions |
0.071 |
1.81 |
|
General landlord duties for all buildings owned by the local authority, including those leased to academies |
0.056 |
1.42 |
|
Services set out in the table above will also include overheads relating to these services: · Ensuring payments are made in respect of taxation, national insurance and superannuation contributions · Recruitment, training, continuing professional development, performance management and personnel management of staff · Investigations of employees or potential employees, with or without remuneration · Investigation and resolution of complaints · Legal services related to education functions |
|
|
|
TOTAL |
0.640 |
16.27 |
(2) note that no approvals are required for the transitional funding of general duties of £0.478m as set out below. This funding is for the statutory requirements of the Local Authority in relation to maintained schools only:
|
|
Full year rate |
27/18 5/12s allocation rate |