Agenda item

Cate Duffy explained that funding reports presented to Schools Forum in December 2016 had been inaccurate.  The Government had announced the end of the Education Services Grant, to which there were two elements, the General and the Retained. 

It had been requested that the Retained element move to the Schools Block and be held centrally.

Cate Duffy had discussed the anomalies with the Finance Department and the table included in paragraph 4.5 had been re-profiled with an accurate picture provided in the table in paragraph 4.7. As a result, funding for School Improvement would be greatly reduced in 2018/19. This was of concern but the report had to amend the error to ensure transparency to Schools Forum. Cate Dufy confirmed there were no further service implications.

Schools’ Forum noted the error in the December 2016 reports and the action that the Council had taken to remedy this for the 2017-18 financial year.