School funding - Section 251 outturn statements

 

Purpose of financial statements

 

The council must publish our Section 251 outturn statements. 

The section 251 outturn statement is intended to:

• Provide schools, parents and others with an interest in education and children services with details about schools and LA funding and expenditure.
• Provide data for the Departmental Annual Report (DAR).
• Inform policy making.
• Inform the Treasury for monitoring purposes.
• Inform Parliament in its role of monitoring the Department’s accountability for public funds.  MPs ask about school and authority expenditure via the mechanisms of Parliamentary Questions or through the Education Select Committee.

It is important that schools forums and others have finance data available to them to inform debate about differing levels of expenditure between LAs and between schools.  Therefore, all statements are prepared to a common format.

 

The Section 251 outturn reports

2017-18

Documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF):

• Table A - Spending by Schools (PDF)
• Table A1 - Children and Young People's Services (PDF)

Documents in Microsoft Excel Format:

• Table A - Spending by Schools (Excel)
• Table A1 - Children and Young People's Services (Excel)

2016-17

Documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF):

• Table A - Spending by Schools (PDF)
• Table A1 - Children and Young People's Services (PDF)

Documents in Microsoft Excel Format:

• Table A - Spending by Schools (Excel)
• Table A1 - Children and Young People's Services (Excel)

2014-15

Documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF):

• Table A - Spending by Schools (PDF 27KB) 
• Table A1 – Children and Young People’s Services (PDF 29KB)

Documents in Microsoft Excel Format:

• Table A - Spending by Schools (Excel 42KB)
• Table A1 – Children and Young People’s Services (Excel 36KB)

2013-14

Documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF):

• Table A - Spending by Schools (PDF 27KB)
• Table A1 – Children and Young People’s Services (PDF 24KB)

Documents in Microsoft Excel Format:

• Table A - Spending by Schools (Excel 39KB)
• Table A1 – Children and Young People’s Services (Excel 36KB)

2012-13

Documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF):

• Table A - Spending by Schools (PDF 63KB) 
• Table A1 – Children and Young People’s Services (PDF 24KB)
• Table B – Spending by Schools (detailed breakdown) (PDF 35KB)

Documents in Microsoft Excel Format:

• Table A - Spending by Schools (Excel 35KB]  
• Table A1 – Children and Young People’s Services (Excel 19KB)
• Table B – Spending by Schools (detailed breakdown) (Excel 27KB)

More information on schools spending

Section 251 budget statements

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