- Request
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1. Please state whether your local authority overspent its budget for the high needs / special educational needs funding block in each of the following financial years:
a) 2018-19
b) 2017-18
c) 2016-17
d) 2015-16
2. If so, please state the amount of the overspend, in
a) percentage
b) cash
terms, in each of the following financial years:
ii) 2017-18
iii) 2016-17
iv) 2015-16
3.
a) Please state whether your authority has asked for approval from your local schools forum to move money from the schools funding block to the high needs / special educational needs funding block in each of the following financial years:
b) Whether it was approved or denied in each year.
ii) 2017-18
iii) 2016-17
iv) 2015-16
4. If this was approved, please state the amount of money transferred from the schools funding block to the high needs / special educational needs funding block in
a) percentage of the total schools funding block
b) cash
terms, in each of the following financial years:
iii) 2016-17
5. If this was not initially approved, please state whether
a) Your authority appealed to the Secretary of State against a decision by the schools forum to refuse such a request or sought direct permission for such a request and
b) What the outcome of this appeal or direct application was
for each of the following financial years:
i) 2018-19
ii) 2017-18
iii) 2016-17
iv) 2015-16
- Decision
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1.
a) 2018-19 No
b) 2017-18 No
c) 2016-17 No
d) 2015-16 No
2.
a) percentage N/A
b) cash N/A
3.
a) Yes
b)
i) 2018-19 No
ii) 2017-18 Yes – It was approved
iii) 2016-17 No
iv) 2015-16 No
4.
i) 2018-19 N/A
ii) 2017-18 0.4% b) £1.626m
iii) 2016-17 N/A
iv) 2015-16 N/A
5.
i) 2018-19 N/A
ii) 2017-18 N/A
iii) 2016-17 N/A
iv) 2015-16 N/A
- Reference number
- FOI0218
- Date request received
- 18 June 2019
- Date of decision
- 19 July 2019