Information on the resources that local authorities have budgeted to make available for education and school services for April 2022 to March 2023.
This is not the latest release in the series: Local authority budgeted expenditure on schools
Series information:
Main points
- Schools expenditure is budgeted to be £3,096 million, an increase of 6.3% over the previous year.
- Schools expenditure per pupil is budgeted to be £6,773, a year-on-year increase of 6.0% or £386.
- The budget per pupil can be broken down into £5,617 per pupil delegated to schools and £1,156 per pupil retained for centrally funded school services.
- The funding delegated to schools is budgeted to be £2,568 million. The amount of funding that local authorities delegate directly to schools ranges between 76% and 89% of overall schools budgeted expenditure.
- 82.9% of the total schools budgeted expenditure is delegated directly to schools, a decrease of 0.4 of a percentage point compared to the previous year.
Reports
Local authority budgeted expenditure on schools, April 2022 to March 2023 , file type: PDF, file size: 438 KB
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