LA and school expenditure
Financial year 2019-20

Description

This document describes the data included in the School Finance in England National Statistics release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the  Open Government License (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for  Open Data (https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/improving-the-transparency-and-accountability-of-government-and-its-services/supporting-pages/releasing-data-in-open-formats).

The  methodology document (https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/methodology/school-workforce-in-england-methodolgy) should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.

Coverage

The Statistical Publication: ‘School Finance in England’ provides the latest information at national, regional and local level on the expenditure on schools, education and children's and young people's services by local authorities. Alongside the local authority spending, the release also provides a detailed breakdown of income and expenditure by schools, with aggregations to the local authority, regional and national level. The publication summarises the information that was collected via the October 2020 Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) and S251 collections (with collection of both being delayed due to Covid-19). It supersedes the 2019 data release, which was provided as an Excel spreadsheet ( LA_and_school_expenditure_2018-19_Tables.xlsx (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/856625/LA_and_school_expenditure_2018-19_Tables.xlsx)).

The release is being made in two stages, with the S251 data (spending by local authorities) being released on 21st January 2021 and the CFR data (schools finances) being released on 11th February 2021. The CFR data will also be available at an individual school level via the Schools Financial Benchmarking website.

This publication includes information on:

- Local authority spending on schools and other education- time-series giving the detailed breakdown of spending split by school-phase and overall spending area (e.g. individual schools budget, expenditure on free school meals, SEN support etc).
- Local authority spending on children's and young people's services- time-series giving the detailed breakdown of spending split by provision sector (e.g. own, private, voluntary) and spending area (e.g. sure start centres, family services, youth justice etc).
- Schools' income and expenditure- time-series giving the detailed breakdown of schools income and expenditure by school phase and financial area (e.g. staff, estates and buildings, etc)
- Schools' revenue balances- time-series giving the overall financial balance data for schools and overall numbers of schools in surplus and deficit.

File formats and conventions

The data files are provided in comma-separated values format, which is compatible with standard spreadsheet software such as Excel.

The following symbols are used in the underlying data files as follows:

: Not available - this information has not been collected or there are no estimates available at this level of aggregation.

N/A Not available - this is normally where a statistic cannot be produced. For example where a denominator is not available to produce a percentage.

z= not applicable. The 'z' symbol is only to be used when an observation is not applicable (e.g. in tables of employment where people under 16 cannot legally be employed).

Data files

CFR School Income and Expenditure (National, Regional, LA levels))

Filename: cfr_incomeexp_v2.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
Time period: 2014-15 to 2019-20
Content summary: Income and expenditure of LA maintained schools

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name     |  Variable description
----------------  |  ------------------
Category          |  Financial category
Description       |  Financial entry
ReportGroup       |  Income/Expenditure
school_phase      |  School phase
Value             |  Total
ValueFY_perpupil  |  Per pupil

Footnotes:

1. There are a small number of local authorities with no LA maintained secondary schools, all are academies.


CFR School Revenue Balances (National, Regional, LA Levels))

Filename: cfr_revenuebalance_v2.3.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
Time period: 2014-15 to 2019-20
Content summary: Revenue balances of LA maintained schools

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name            |  Variable description
-----------------------  |  --------------------------------------------------------
average_revenue_balance  |  Average revenue balance
AveValueOverThresh       |  Average value of surplus over surplus threshold
B01                      |  Committed revenue balance (B01)
B02                      |  Uncommitted revenue balance (B02)
B06                      |  Community focussed extended school revenue balance (B06)
number_schools           |  Number of schools
NumOverThresh            |  Number of schools over surplus threshold
perc_BalanceofIncome     |  Revenue balance as percentage of total income
PercOverThresh           |  Percentage of schools over surplus threshold
PercSchools              |  Percentage of schools
revenue_state            |  Revenue state
school_phase             |  Phase
total_income             |  Total Income
total_revenue_balance    |  Total revenue balance
ValueOverThresh          |  Total value of surplus over surplus threshold

Footnotes:

1. There are a small number of local authorities with no LA maintained secondary schools, are all academies.


S251 Children and Young People's Services (National, Regional, LA levels)

Filename: s251_table-a1_cyps_ees_201420_v3.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
Time period: 2014-15 to 2019-20
Content summary: Spending by local authorities on Children's and Young People's Services

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name             |  Variable description
------------------------  |  ---------------------------------------------------------------
Capita                    |  Capita
Description               |  Description - Choose the funding lines you are interested in
GovGrantsInsideAEF        |  Government Grants Inside AEF
GovGrantsOutsideAEF       |  Government Grants Outside AEF
Income                    |  Income
LEANetRevenueExpenditure  |  Net Revenue Expenditure
NetCurrentExpenditure     |  Net Current Expenditure
NetExpPCapita             |  Net Current Expenditure per Capita
OtherPublic               |  Other Public
OwnProvision              |  Own Provision
PrivateProvision          |  Private Provision
ReportGroup               |  Report group - Choose the reporting group you are interested in
TotalExpenditure          |  Total Expenditure
Voluntary                 |  Voluntary

Footnotes:

1. Before using this data, please check the methodology section for important information such as definitions, limitations and caveats.


S251 Dedicated Schools Grant Table 2019-20

Filename: s251_dedicatedschoolsgrant_ees_201920_v1a.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
Time period: 2019-20
Content summary: Financial breakdown of dedicated schools grant funding

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name        |  Variable description
-------------------  |  ------------------------------------------------------------
AllocatedDSGFunding  |  Allocated DSG Funding
Description          |  Description - Choose the funding lines you are interested in
Net                  |  Net
Plannedspend         |  Planned spend

Footnotes:

1. Before using this data, please check the methodology section for important information such as definitions, limitations and caveats.


S251 Schools Expenditure (National, Regional, LA levels)

Filename: s251_table-a_schexp_ees_201420_v3d.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
Time period: 2014-15 to 2019-20
Content summary: Spending by local authorities on schools and other education and community services

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name      |  Variable description
-----------------  |  ---------------------------------------------------------------
APPru              |  Alternative Provision PRU
Description        |  Description - Choose the funding lines you are interested in
EarlyYears         |  Early years
Gross              |  Gross
Income             |  Income
MaintainedSchools  |  Maintained Schools Count
Net                |  Net
NetpPupil          |  Net per Pupil
PostSchool         |  Post-school
Primary            |  Primary
PupilCount         |  Pupil Count
ReportGroup        |  Report Group - Choose the reporting group you are interested in
Secondary          |  Secondary
SenSpecial         |  SEN Special

Footnotes:

1. Before using this data, please check the methodology section for important information such as definitions, limitations and caveats.


S251 Summary Data

Filename: cfr-s251_highlightssummary_v1.2.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
Time period: 2014-15 to 2019-20
Content summary: Combined overview of gross and net spending by local authorities on schools, other education and children's and young people's services.

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name       |  Variable description
------------------  |  --------------------------------------
cyps_spend          |  Children and young people's services
Description         |  Description
GrossExpend         |  Gross expenditure by schools
GrossExpendpPupil   |  Gross expenditure by schools per pupil
NetExpend           |  Net expenditure by schools
NetExpendpPupil     |  Net expenditure by schools per pupil
OtherEdComm         |  Other education and community
ReportGroup         |  Report Group
school_expenditure  |  School expenditure

Footnotes:

1. Before using this data, please check the methodology section for important information such as definitions, limitations and caveats.
