Agenda item

Ian Pearson drew attention to the report (agenda item 11) which set out the current financial position of the services funded by the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG), highlighting any under and over spends.

Ian Pearson highlighted the current position of each of the blocks. There was no variance forecast for the Schools Block at that stage in the year.

Table 3 set out the current position of the early years block and there was no variance at that point in time. The early years block was very difficult to predict due to the volatile nature of both the early years block funding and payments to providers.

Table 4 set out the current position of the High Needs Block, which was also showing no variance. There was an agreed overspend in this area.

Ian Pearson concluded that there were currently no significant variances, though it was not usually until the autumn term that changes to high risk budgets such as the high needs top up and early years payments became apparent.

RESOLVED that the Schools’ Forum noted the report.