To consider a report by County Councillor P Davies, Portfolio Holder for Education and Property and County Councillor A Davies, Portfolio Holder for Finance, Countryside and Transport.
Minutes:
Cabinet considered amendments to the Schools’ Funding Formula (SFF), the Post 16 formula and the Scheme for Financing of Schools, following consultation with all schools. The amendments to the Schools’ Funding Formula being proposed were
· The creation of a Teacher Learning Responsibility (TLR) allowance for secondary schools.
· Recognition of pupil movement during the year for secondary and primary and schools.
· Post 16 Grant Funding allocations.
The Chair of the Learning and Skills Scrutiny Committee advised that the Committee broadly welcomed the proposals but had been disappointed that the impact assessments had not been available for their meeting. Scrutiny felt that if Welsh Government funding to support the proposals was not forthcoming there were not sufficient steps in place to the mitigate the risks to the proposal and there was a danger that this would be at the expense of other schools that had balanced their budgets.
Cabinet was advised that these considerations would be taken into account as part of the budget setting process.
RESOLVED |
Reason for Decision |
To amend the formula to recognise pupil movement during the year for secondary and primary schools as per paragraph 3.4.2 of the report. |
To recognise pupil movement in year. |
To agree the Post 16 funding principles as set out in paragraph 3.4.3 and Appendix B inclusive of a transition period for year 1. |
To realign the funding with Welsh Government methodology and provide a transition period for Secondary schools during year 1. |
To approve changes to the Scheme for Financing of schools at set out in paragraph 3.5 and appendix C. |
To recognise changes that have been agreed by Schools’ forum following a consultation process. |
To amend the formula to create a TLR allowance for the Secondary sector as per paragraph 3.4.1 and 5 above. |
To recognise the omission of the allowance of the Average Teacher Cost (ATC) calculation and include it within the funding formula. |
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