Issue details
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.
Decisions
- 22/01/2025 - School Funding Formula 2025/26
Documents
Background papers
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