Schools finance information

Supporting information for papers to the school forum for maintained schools.

Papers for Schools Forum 13 February 2025

• School fund audit certificates 2023/2024 (PDF, 110KB)

Papers for Schools Forum 3 October 2024

• Three-year plans for maintained schools for 2024/25 to 2026/27 (PDF, 160KB)
• Extract of school balances from DFE website (PDF, 233KB)

Section 251 return

• Outturn return 2019/20 sections 1 and 2 (PDF, 47KB)
• Outturn return 2019/20 section 3 (PDF, 158KB)

Papers for Schools Forum 20 June 2024

• 2023-24 DSG finance update maintained school balances and earmarked reserves (PDF, 164KB)

Papers for Schools Forum 15 February 2024

• School fund audit certificates 2022/2023 (PDF, 115KB)

Papers for Schools Forum 5 October 2023

• Three-year plans for maintained schools for 2023/24 to 2025/26 (PDF, 149KB)
• Extract of school balances from DfE

Papers for Schools Forum 22 June 2023

• Item 6 - 2022-2023 DSG finance update maintained schools balances and earmarked reserves (PDF, 144KB)

Papers for Schools Forum 16 February 2023

• School fund audit certificates 2021/2022 (PDF,107KB)

Papers for Schools Forum 6 October 2022

• Three-year plans for maintained schools for 2022/23 to 2024/25 (PDF, 349KB)
• Extract of school balances from DFE website (PDF, 259KB)

Papers for school forum 16 June 2022

• Item 6 - 2021-2022 DSG finance update maintained schools balances and earmarked reserves (PDF, 160KB)

Papers for school forum 7 October 2021

• Three-year plans for maintained schools for 2021/22 to 2023/24 (PDF, 152KB)
• Council’s response to the NFF consultation from September 2021 (PDF, 112KB)

Papers for school forum 1 October 2020

• Three-year plans for maintained schools for 2020/21 to 2022/23 (PDF, 152KB)

Papers for school forum 11 June 2020

• Item 7 - 2019-20  DSG finance update maintained schools balances and earmarked reserves (PDF, 50KB)
• Item 7 - 2019-20  DSG finance update schools eligible for clawback (PDF, 178KB)
• Item 8 – terms of reference and application form for the Adjudication Panel (PDF, 358KB)

Papers for school forum 3 October 2019

• Three-year plans for maintained schools for 2019/20 to 2021/22 (PDF, 217KB)
• Schools financial value standard - ratings (PDF, 468KB)
• School fund audit certificates 2018/19 (PDF, 201KB)

Papers for school forum 13 June 2019

• 2018-19 DSG finance update maintained schools balances and earmarked reserves (PDF, 203KB)
• 2018-19 DSG finance update schools eligible for clawback (PDF, 181KB)

Section 251 Budget return

On 20 April 2020 the DfE announced that the collection of the Section 251 Budget Return for 2020/21 was cancelled due to Covid19 workloads.

• Budget return 2019 - 2020 (PDF, 196KB)

Papers for school forum 4 October 2018

• Schools financial value standard - ratings (PDF, 400KB)

• School fund audit certificates 2017/18 (PDF,192KB)

• Schools not setting a balanced budget 18/19 (PDF,172KB)

Three-year plans for 2018

Maintained schools have submitted a three year financial forecast as at 30 June 2018. The results are summarised in the 3 year budget plan submission 2018-19 document (PDF, 205KB).

Companies House has the equivalent information for Academies.

Papers for school forum 14 June 2018

2017/18 -  DSG finance update - maintained schools balances and earmarked reserves

• School carry forwards 31 March 2018 (PDF, 212KB)

2017/18 -  DSG finance update – no schools have balances that meet the criteria for clawback.