Education and Skills written question – answered at on 30 October 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether local education authorities are given guidelines from central Government on how to divide funds between schools within their remit.
Section 47 of the School Standards and Framework Act enables the Secretary of State to make regulations governing the way in which local authorities must, and in some cases may, distribute funding to the schools they maintain. The most recent set of these regulations is the "School Finance (England) Regulations 2006". The mixture of prescription and discretion within these regulations enables each local authority to tailor their distribution mechanism to the needs and circumstances of their schools.
In addition to the core funding a school receives via its local authority's distribution mechanism the Department also makes available a number of other grants to schools. The distribution mechanism of these grants is, in the main, determined by the Department.
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