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Twenty-First Report - School Funding
Public Accounts Committee
HC 183
Published 22 October 2021
Government response
Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Twenty-First report from Session 2021-22 · published 14 Dec 2021
Recommendations & Conclusions
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Recommendation
Not Addressed
Under the national funding formula, schools that are more deprived have fared worse than those...
Recommendation
Under the national funding formula, schools that are more deprived have fared worse than those that are less deprived. In 2018–19, the Department introduced a national funding formula with the aim of allocating school funding more transparently, consistently and fairly …
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Government Response Summary
The government did not address the recommendation to publish an assessment of the likely impact of moving to a hard national funding formula on individual schools before its implementation, instead reiterating that the NFF distributes funding fairly and fixes a broken system.
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Conclusion
Not Addressed
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence...
Conclusion
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence from the Department for Education (the Department) and the Education and Skills Funding Agency (the ESFA) on school funding in England.1
Government Response Summary
The government response restates the committee's initial observation about taking evidence for the report, without addressing any specific findings or recommendations.
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Conclusion
Not Addressed
We asked whether the Department was confident that the falling rolls fund had sufficient resources...
Conclusion
We asked whether the Department was confident that the falling rolls fund had sufficient resources to help all the schools that might need support. The Department replied that there were mechanisms for the funding to vary according to local need …
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Government Response Summary
The government response describes how local authorities may use falling rolls funds under existing policy, but does not address the committee's specific concern about the Department's confidence in the fund's sufficiency or the adequacy of support.
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