Agenda item

Jonathan Chishick noted bids to the Schools in Financial Difficulty Fund were being considered at the next Heads Funding Group. He asked if the bids were awarded if this would come out of next year’s budget or the current year’s budget. If next year, he queried if extra provision needed to be added to the budget for this fund.

Ian Pearson stated that was possible that further bids might be submitted and therefore consideration needed to be given to whether these bids could be placed on the next HFG agenda. Previously an additional meeting had been set up and it was possible that this might have to happen again.  

Ian Pearson explained that they did not currently know what the call on the fund would be however, it had been agreed at an earlier Forum meeting that the pot of funding should be topped up to £200k. Melanie Ellis added that the de-delegations had now been agreed and the budget allocations had to be submitted to the DfE imminently. Further bids to the fund would therefore have to be taken out of the following years allocation.

RESOLVED that the Schools’ Forum noted the report.