Minutes:
Details of the final Schools’ Revenue Budgets 2019/20 were circulated.
It was explained that adjustments had been made for 3 schools, Ditton Park, Eden Girls and Lynch Hill. Although within the 7-year threshold, they now had pupils in all year groups 7-11 and were no longer treated as new and growing schools; this resulted in a release of funds into the DSG as those schools’ anticipated budgets were higher and had been scaled back to reflect actual pupil numbers. The funds for redistribution were shown in the final column of the paper, indicating an increase in budgets for the majority of schools. It was noted these were the definitive budgets for maintained schools and the detail for academies would inform the ESFA.
Ditton Park and Grove Academy were highlighted and it was confirmed that Nic Barani had contacted these schools to make them aware of the changes to their budgets.
With regards to national issues, there was nothing to report at this meeting.