Local Authority Budgeted Expenditure on Schools, 2009-10

Statistics on Local Authority Budgeted Expenditure on Schools include comparison data for Wales for the period 2008-09 and 2009-10.

The key points from the latest release are:

• Total local authority net revenue expenditure for all services is budgeted to increase by 3.1% between 2008-09 and 2009-10.  This compares with a budgeted increase of 2.5% for education services.
• Gross schools expenditure (inclusive of all sources of funding) is budgeted to increase by 3.7% to £2,385 million in 2009 10.
• Individual schools budgets (ISB) have increased by 3.4% (£60 million) to £1,805 million.  The amount of funding that local authorities delegate directly to schools ranges between 70% and 83% of overall schools budgeted expenditure.
• 76% of the total schools budgeted expenditure is delegated directly to schools.
• Gross schools expenditure per pupil is budgeted to increase by 4.5% to £5,212.  This can be broken down into: £3,946 per pupil delegated to schools and £1,266 per pupil retained for centrally funded school services.  The delegated funding per pupil equates to £6,032 for nursery, £3,577 for primary, £4,119 for secondary and £16,014 for special.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3519
E-mail: stats.finance@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

June 2010 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)