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Details of the funding system for schools and high needs from 2025 to 2026.
Information about the 2023 Spring Budget announcement on early years entitlements and associated funding.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Applications for the childminder start-up grants scheme are now open.…
Following the announcement of the new start-up grant for childminders at…
In the government’s spring budget, the Chancellor announced transformative…
Details of the funding system for schools and high needs.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Statements and data summarising the educational context and priorities for developing a system led by trusts in EIAs.
We are seeking views on our approach to implementing the direct national funding formula (NFF) for mainstream schools.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
We are seeking views on proposed updates to the early years funding formulae, and maintained nursery school supplementary funding.
We are seeking views on the approach to completing our reforms to the National Funding Formula.
We’re seeking views on proposals to reform how local authorities’ school improvement functions are funded.
We're seeking views on our proposals to provide greater support to small, remote schools through the national funding formula's sparsity factor in 2022 to 2023.
We’re seeking views on proposals to attach conditions to the payment made to local authorities of the school improvement monitoring and brokering grant.
We’re seeking views on proposed changes to the high needs national funding formula (NFF), forming a part of the high needs NFF review.
We are seeking views on revised arrangements for the dedicated schools grant.
We’re seeking views on how to implement the minimum per pupil funding levels on a mandatory basis in local 5 to 16 school funding formulae.
The government’s response to the Education Select Committee’s 10th report of session 2017 to 2019 on school and college funding.
Call for evidence on the financial arrangements for children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND) and those who need alternative provision (AP).
We're seeking views on a proposed end date for eligible teachers to make Golden Hello claims to academies or LEAs in England.
We are seeking views on the implementation of the changes to the criteria for agreeing loan schemes.
We are seeking views on changes to the guidance for agreeing loans for local-authority-maintained schools.
We are inviting views on our proposals for free school meals eligibility and early years pupil premium eligibility under Universal Credit.
Assessment of impact of the new proposed eligibility criteria for free school meals and EYPP under Universal Credit.
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