Official Statistics

LA and school expenditure: 2023 to 2024 financial year

How schools and local authorities spent their funding on education, children's services and social care in the financial year 2023 to 2024.

Applies to England

Documents

Local authority and school expenditure: 2023 to 2024

Details

A summary of data from the consistent financial reporting and S251 outturn surveys covering:

  • local authority spending on education services and children’s and young people’s services
  • the income and expenditure of local authority-maintained schools in England
  • the latest position on school revenue balances

We will also publish the income and expenditure of local-authority-maintained schools data on the school financial benchmarking service at the end of the year. You can download datasets for all local-authority-maintained schools (and equivalent data for academies) from the data source section.

Workforce and finance statistics team

Updates to this page

Published 12 December 2024

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