Agenda item

Ian Pearson introduced the report (Item 15), which came to each Schools’ Forum meeting and set out the current financial position of the services funded by the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) and highlighted any under or over spends.

Section five of the report detailed information on the Schools’ Block, where the current spend forecast for the Schools Block DSG was in excess of £64 million. The net position was £27,210, which was considered reasonable.

The net position for the Early Years Block was just under £300k. This was an area that was very difficult to predict.

Section seven of the report set out the current position of the High Needs Block and showed the small forecasted overspend of £10k.

It was possible that further variances might arise by the spring term on the budgets for high needs top ups, early years payments and early years funding.

RESOLVED that the Schools’ Forum noted the report.