Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 30
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The school funding system currently involves local discretion in that local authorities and academy trusts...
Conclusion
The school funding system currently involves local discretion in that local authorities and academy trusts are free to vary the allocations that the Department calculates using the national funding formula. The government has said that it intends to move to a ‘hard’ national funding formula, where the Department would set schools’ budgets directly.43
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
2.3 The department has recently published a consultation on Completing our Reforms to the NFF which proposes that the department will move to allocating funding directly to schools on the basis of a single, national formula.