ESFA Update local authorities: 5 September 2018
Published 5 September 2018
Applies to England
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1. Action: dedicated schools grant (DSG) chief finance officer (CFO) statement of assurance and notes to the accounts 2017 to 2018
The deadline for local authorities to submit their DSG CFO statement of assurance and notes to accounts for 2017 to 2018 is Friday 14 September.
We have published guidance on how to complete the statement of assurance and notes to the accounts.
Local authorities must submit their returns to Document Exchange via Information Exchange. If you have any questions about this collection, please email us.
2. Information: schools funding 2019 to 2020
We have uploaded tables onto COLLECT illustrating the 2019 to 2020 national funding formula (NFF) calculations for the schools block.
Each school can view the calculation for their institution. Each local authority can view the calculations for all the maintained schools and academies in their local authority area.
We have also published technical notes for 2019 to 2020 for the high needs NFF, the schools NFF and the central school services block NFF, explaining in detail the methodologies and data sources.
3. Action: autumn school census 2018
The autumn 2018 school census day is Thursday 4 October. The deadline for approved submissions is Wednesday 31 October.
We have made a ‘beta’ release of the COLLECT system available to allow you to familiarise yourselves with COLLECT in advance of the census date. This will remain available until 4pm on Friday 28 September.
We have issued further details about the collection in the census ‘readiness’ email. If you did not receive this email, please contact us via a service request form.
We have published guides to help schools and local authorities complete and submit their autumn 2018 school census. These include an interactive tool to support the return of accurate 16 to 19 school census data.
4. Information: sharing of pupil premium eligibility and SEN pupil data with schools and academies with post-16 students and specialist post-16 institutions
From 3 September 2018, the Department for Education (DfE) is giving schools, academies and free schools with post-16 students, as well as specialist post-16 institutions, access to data about their new intake of students. Colleges were given access to this data from September 2016.
The data includes details of students’ eligibility for pupil premium funding when they were in year 11 in 2017 to 2018 and any SEN support received at school. This is to enable these institutions to effectively identify and monitor their cohort of disadvantaged students and to put in place effective interventions to support them.
We are supplying this information through an existing secure data transfer system (Key to Success). You can find further information and technical guidance about accessing this data on the Key to Success system.