Section 52 Budget Statement (Indicative) 2009-2010 and 2010-2011
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 financial year 2008-09 for the three funding periods 2008-09 which details indicative budgets for 2009-10 and 2010-11 for the schools budget.
The statement for the forthcoming year is intended to provide a clear picture of the authority's planned spending:
- 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.
Education outside the schools budget for Education and Childrens Services is not included. The Budget Statement is presented in six parts, the content and format of which is prescribed in the Education (Budget Statements) (England) regulations 2008 from the DCSF.
Table 1
LA level Information - an overall picture of the LA's planned spending on the schools budget.
Annex CEL is designed to demonstrate that the LA is complying with the limit on central spend within the Schools budget.
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 3a
School level Information - shows how the LA's formula (described in Table 4) has been applied to each mainstream 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 3b
Special Schools - Information for special schools is shown separately in this table.
Table 4
The LEA allocation formula - shows details of the how the LA's formula (allocated in table 3) has been applied to calculate each schools budget share.
Explanatory Notes - These notes have been prepared to assist the reader in the interpretation of the information.
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