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School Funding Formula 2025/26

To approve the allocation and formula factors for the School's Block Dedicated Schools Grant 2025/26.

Decision type: Key

Reason Key: 1+2. Expenditure>£500,000 and Affects 2 or more wards;

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Notice of proposed decision first published: 12/12/2024

Open/Closed: Open;

Relevant Scrutiny Committee: Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee;

Decision due: 22 Jan 2025 by Portfolio Holder for Children and Families

Lead member: Portfolio Holder for Children and Families

Lead director: Director - Children and Families

Department: Children and Families

Contact: Mark Rotheram, Strategic Finance Manager Email: Mark.Rotheram@wigan.gov.uk Tel: 01942 489402.

Consultation process

Schools Forum met on the 10/12/2024 and confirmed agreement on the principles to be used in applying the National Funding Formula and any transfer of funding between blocks.
Schools Forum is scheduled to meet on the 16/01/2025 to agree the funding formula and school block allocations based on the updated data due to be published nationally.
 

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