Section 52 Budget Statement 2004 - 2005
Local Authorities (LAs) are required under section 52 
of the Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998 to prepare a budget statement before the beginning of each financial year.
The statement for the forthcoming year is intended to provide a clear picture of the authority's planned spending:
- how much of the whole education budget the LA intends to spend on items outside the Schools Budget
- how much the LA is proposing to retain centrally within the School Budget for school services
- how the local formula is working to produce budget shares for each school in Poole.
The Budget Statement is presented in eight parts, the content and format of which is prescribed in the Education (Budget Statements) (England) regulations 2004 from the DfES. These statements are available for download on the right hand side of this page.
Table 0
Transparent Account - provides an account of the main sources of funding available for schools and of the funding delivered to schools, giving a comparison with the previous year.
Table 1
LEA level Information - an overall picture of the LEA's planned spending on educational provision (both school and non-school) in its area. Information provided in this Table enables a comparison to be made between the funding being allocated direct to schools and the amount being spent other than on schools, retained centrally or devolved by the LEA.
Table 1a is new for 2004-05, and is designed to demonstrate that the LEA is complying with the limit on central spend within the Schools budget.
Table 1b is a breakdown of the LEA's planned expenditure on its Youth Service.
Table 2
School level information - summarises the main formula funding elements and lists the budget share and the per pupil or place share in each school
Table 3
School level Information - shows how the LEA's formula (described in Table 5) has been applied to each school to calculate its budget share, including all the relevant factors and lump sums, and the numbers of pupils in each school year used to allocate pupil-led funding
Table 4
Minimum Funding Guarantee - this is new for 2004-05 and shows how the Minimum Funding Guarantee has been applied to primary and secondary schools
Table 5
The LEA allocation formula - shows details of the how the LEA's formula (allocated in table 3) has been applied to calculate each schools budget share.
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