School funding

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 5 Jul 2021 Closed: 14 Dec 2021 Parliament page
A recent report by the National Audit Office (NAO) found that a new national schools funding formula has led to to a shift in funding from more deprived schools to better off schools. Government funding per pupil has remained virtually unchanged since 2014. The Department for Education (DfE) implemented a … Read more
11 Recommendations
27 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
2 Letters
1 Event
Activity timeline 5 events
14 Dec
2021
Report published
29 Nov
2021
Correspondence
22 Oct
2021
Report published
10 Sep
2021
Correspondence
15 Jul
2021
Oral evidence
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
15 Jul 2021
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School funding
Julia Kinniburgh · Department for Education Susan Acland-Hood · The Department for Education Tony Foot · Department for Education Warwick Sharp · Education and Skills Funding Agency
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Twenty-First Report - School Funding HC 183 22 Oct 2021 38 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
3 results
Clear
2 Recommendation Not Addressed
Twenty-First Report - School Fundi…
Under the national funding formula, schools that are more deprived have fared worse than those...
Under the national funding formula, schools that are more deprived have fared worse than those that are less deprived. In 2018–19, the Department introduced a national funding formula with the aim of allocating school funding more transparently, consistently and fairly … Read more
Government Response
The government did not address the recommendation to publish an assessment of the likely impact of moving to a hard national funding formula on individual schools before its implementation, instead reiterating that the NFF distributes funding fairly and fixes a broken system.
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1 Conclusion Not Addressed
Twenty-First Report - School Fundi…
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence...
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence from the Department for Education (the Department) and the Education and Skills Funding Agency (the ESFA) on school funding in England.1
Government Response
The government response restates the committee's initial observation about taking evidence for the report, without addressing any specific findings or recommendations.
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23 Conclusion Not Addressed
Twenty-First Report - School Fundi…
We asked whether the Department was confident that the falling rolls fund had sufficient resources...
We asked whether the Department was confident that the falling rolls fund had sufficient resources to help all the schools that might need support. The Department replied that there were mechanisms for the funding to vary according to local need … Read more
Government Response
The government response describes how local authorities may use falling rolls funds under existing policy, but does not address the committee's specific concern about the Department's confidence in the fund's sufficiency or the adequacy of support.
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Government Response AI assessment · 34 of 11 classified
Accepted 11
Accepted in Part 1
Acknowledged 5
Deferred 9
Not Addressed 3
Rejected 5
Total 11 recs + 27 conclusions
Correspondence 2 letters
29 Nov 2021 Correspondence from Susan Acland-Hood, Permanent Secretary, Department for Education, re 21st PAC Report of Session 2021 – School Funding, dated 19 November 2021
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10 Sep 2021 Correspondence from Susan Acland-Hood, Permanent Secretary, Department for Education, re School Funding in England, dated 12 August 2021
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