Agenda item

Wendy Howells introduced the report (Agenda Item 11) which set out the current criteria and budgets for additional funds, for review by members of the Schools’ Forum to ensure they were still relevant and fit for purpose.

Wendy Howells reported that there was very little change in the criteria and budgets for additional funds since 2017/18. She explained that in 2017/18 the decision had been taken by the Schools’ Forum to remove the falling rolls fund because only one school in four years had qualified for a payment. The Growth Fund, Schools in Financial Difficulty Fund and Additional High Needs Fund had all been retained.

The value of the Growth Fund would change in the next report to the Schools’ Forum in December 2018 because there had been a change in its value and how it was allocated out to schools.

The Chairman asked Members of the Schools’ Forum if they were happy for the Criteria and Budgets for Additional Funds 2019/20 to go out to schools for consultation and this was agreed.

RESOLVED that the Schools’ Forum agreed that the Criteria and Budgets for Additional Funds 2019/20 could go out to consultation.