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Information on the resources that local authorities have budgeted to make available for education and school services for April 2023 to March 2024.

Main points

  • Schools expenditure is budgeted to be £3,343 million, an increase of 8.0% over the previous year.
  • Schools expenditure per pupil is budgeted to be £7,327, a year-on-year increase of 8.2% or £554.
  • The budget per pupil can be broken down into £5,998 per pupil delegated to schools and £1,328 per pupil retained for centrally funded school services.
  • The funding delegated to schools is budgeted to be £2,737 million.  The amount of funding that local authorities delegate directly to schools ranges between 74% and 87% of overall schools budgeted expenditure.
  • 81.9% of the total schools budgeted expenditure is delegated directly to schools, a decrease of 1.1 of a percentage point compared to the previous year.

Reports

Local authority budgeted expenditure on schools, April 2023 to March 2024 , file type: PDF, file size: 441 KB

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