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Agenda item

DSG Monitoring 2017/18 Month 9 (Ian Pearson)

Minutes:

Ian Person introduced the report, which set out the current financial position of the services funded by the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) and highlighted any under or overspends. Ian Pearson highlighted that the diagram under section 3.3 of the report showed how the DSG was split between the three blocks in the 2017/18 budget.

Table one on page 44, showed the difference in spending compared to the previous report brought to the Schools’ Forum in December 2017.

As at the end of month nine, an overspend of £35k was forecast in the High Needs Block, which was offset by forecast savings in the Schools and Early Year’s blocks. This gave an overall forecast overspend of £7k, which was a small reduction from the overspend forecast at month seven. It was however, expected that the over spend on the High Needs Block would increase by year end and was also a strong possibly that further vacancies might arise in the spring term on the budgets for early years payments and early years funding.

RESOLVED that the Schools’ Forum noted the report.

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