R E S P O N D N O W
Support Devon's response to the
National Funding Formula Consultation - Stage 2
DAPH & DASH representatives have been working closely
with the Local Authority to consider the proposals announced on 14 December
2016 within Stage 2 of the government’s Schools National Funding Formula
Consultation.
A Devon R E S P O N S E T E M P L A T E has been produced for schools to use as guidance when submitting
their own responses to the Consultation which closes in just under a fortnight
on 22 March 2017.
Visit this L I N K to the Schools National Funding Formula (NFF) Stage 2 Consultation documents and Online Response form
Whilst the template is aimed to provide guidance and to assist with understanding, schools are encouraged to tailor individual responses and include specific
examples to evidence the potential impact of the suggested proposals within
your setting.
By way of summary:
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Devon has always welcomed a national fair
funding formula as it has constantly been amongst the poorly funded authorities
in the country.
- However, the unintended consequences of these
proposals still see Devon schools being £22 million worse off than the national average.
- Nearly 54,000 pupils (61.9%) of the pupils are placed
in schools where they will lose funding under the proposed formula.
- The remaining 38.1% of pupils are placed in
typically smaller primary schools where they will only gain until the age of 11
before moving on to large, lower funded secondary schools.
- Based on the funding formula of 16/17 the
allocation directed to AWPU was 80.9% but will now be 72.5% under the new funding
formula.
- The proposals are being introduced at a time
when the National Audit Office is predicting a 8.0% reduction in mainstream
school budgets by 2019-20.
There are key elements of the government’s proposals that Devon
would like to see amended, namely:
- The
proportion of weighting given to AEN rather than basic entitlement
- Weakness
of evidence for proposals and continued use of averages
- The 3%
funding floor, which locks in historical difference
- Spending
cuts and other funding pressures
Any revised formula will ultimately dictate the overall
level of funding coming into Devon and will have a fundamental effect on all
children in our care; not just now but into the future. As such, this is a
collective, Devon-wide issue and therefore we would strongly urge stakeholders from all
Devon schools to submit responses to include school leaders, staff, governors,
parents and other members from the wider education community.
Paul Walker Matthew Shanks DAPH Chair DASH Co-Ordinator
Minutes from the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) meeting 23 February 2017
Matthew Shanks (DASH Co-Ordinator) and Lorraine Heath (DASH Executive Committee member) attended the APPG meeting on Education Governance and Leadership, held 23rd February in the House of Commons. The theme of the meeting was school funding and it was hosted by Neil Carmichael MP and the National Governors’ Association with members of the school governance and leadership sector.
Minutes from the meeting are now available | READ MORE
f40’s draft response to the NFF Consultation (Stage
2)
Read f40’s draft response to the NFF Consultation (Stage
2) Version 5 | 5 March 2017 | READ MORE
f40 has commissioned
some work to update the original f40 modelling presented to the DfE in March
2016, to establish the total figure that would be required to achieve a true
fair funding settlement and to establish notional figures for the running of a
primary and secondary school. It is quite likely that f40 will wish to reflect the outcome of this
research in the final submission to the DfE.
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