Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 31
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The Department explained that it had begun a consultation process about moving to a hard...
Conclusion
The Department explained that it had begun a consultation process about moving to a hard funding formula on 8 July 2021. Ultimately, its goal was to allocate funding consistently across the system as whole, so that schools with the same characteristics and pupil needs would be funded at the same level wherever in the country they were located.44 The Department said that it had not committed to a specific timetable for implementing the hard formula, because this was a complex reform that would take time to get right. The consultation proposed progressively bringing local authorities closer towards the national funding formula and evaluating the impact at each step. The Department told us that 73 local authorities were already mirroring the national funding formula almost exactly.45 Teachers’ starting salaries
Government Response
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HM Government
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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.