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Funding information is on the Leicestershire County Council
Website:
http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/education/information_about_schools/
support_for_schools.htm
Or using menus on left hand side of web pages LCC Website >
Education & Learning >
Schools & Colleges >
Support for Schools, Governors & Staff >
High Needs
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2013-14 SCHOOL FUNDING REFORM – HIGH NEEDS
New Funding Formula
Matrix
Mainstream School or
Academy
Element 1
Basic entitlement - per pupil
of £4,000 within school
delegated budget
Universal Funding (all pupils)
Element 2
Low Cost, High Incidence SEN
Element 3
Top Up Funding
High Cost, Low Incidence SEN
Additional funding through
the schools delegated
notional SEN budget –
£6,000 of additional support
per pupil
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Special School/ Unit and
Resourced Provision in
Mainstream School or
Academy
Place funding £10,000
through delegated budget
Further funding required
above the £6,000 of Element
2 to meet the assessed needs
of the pupil
Further funding required
above the place element of
£10,000 to meet the
assessed needs of the pupil
Budget centrally retained and
paid to school based on
individual pupil need
Budget centrally retained
and paid to school based on
individual pupil need
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What the funding matrix means in practice for High Needs –
See multi coloured handout
Same funding for Maintained Schools and Academies but
some different start dates (see later)
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Mainstream Schools and Academies 1
• School contributes first £6k of support costs per pupil towards
statemented hours from their Notional SEN Budget
• This equates to £31.58 per school day (£6k / 190 days)
• Top Up is calculated as follows
• Multiply statemented Learning Support Assistant (LSA) hours by
£11.81 and statemented Additional Teacher Hours (ATH) by £42.96 to
get the weekly support cost. Then divide this by 5 to get the daily
support cost.
• Deduct school contribution of £31.58 per day to give the daily top
up value
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Mainstream Schools and Academies 2 - Top Up eg
• Bart Smith’s statement states 20 LSA hours and 2 ATH hours of
support
• Weekly Support Cost =
• (20 * £11.81 = £236.20) + (2 * £42.96 = £85.92 ) = £322.12
• Daily support cost = £64.42
• Less school contribution of £31.58 per day (£6k / 190 days)
• So Bart’s Top Up = £32.84 per day
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Mainstream Schools and Academies 3 – Other Top Up
Costs
• Some pupil statements detail other types of support for example
x hours per week with a communication support worker which will
be costed at the appropriate rate and added to the daily top up
value
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Mainstream Schools and Academies 4 – Top Up eg
• Bart Smith’s Top Up = £32.84 per day
• Multiply daily top up by number of school days in each month
(April = 17 so April Top Up = 17 * £32.84 = £558.28)
• SENA will pay Bart’s school £558.28 in April
• BUT schools becoming academies before 31st March will
stay using the old funding formula until August. They will
continue to get Enhanced Packages for the Summer term
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Mainstream Schools and Academies 5 – Website
Website page shows other examples of Top Up Calculations and
SENA guidance about what each element should fund (see handout)
•Each month SENA will load the Top Up spreadsheet onto the
website so schools can see their payment and annual forecast for
each pupil. No payments will be made outside this cycle and
adjustments will feed into the following month (per Operational
Group)
•Pupil names will be removed but Student ID, Unique Pupil reference
(UPN) and Date of Birth (DOB) will be shown for schools to identify
the pupil.
•Top Up spreadsheet will be password protected and passwords will
be AVCO’d to schools. Schools not using AVCO should contact us for
the password.
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Special Schools and Special Units
There are 2 elements to the payment
•Place Fee of £10k
•Top Up payment reflecting individual pupil
need
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Special Schools and Special Units Place Fee
•Place Numbers have been confirmed to EFA and schools for
13/14.
•For 14/15 we need to agree Place Numbers in October for the
following April and September
•Place Fees are paid at £10k per year and are fixed as the number
of agreed places
•Place Fees will be paid in 12 equal instalments
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• Special Schools and Special Units Top Ups
•Top Up Values have been agreed for Special Schools and Units
•Pupils are banded according to need from Band 4 to Band 10
•Unit Top Ups have been increased in line with Special School Top
Ups but Special Schools also receive the £150k fixed allowance,
outreach allowance and split site / satellite allowances
• Top Up spreadsheets show each pupil, their band and the band
Top Up value. The Top Up is divided by 190 days to give a daily
Top Up value.
• Top Ups will be paid for each school day that the pupil is on roll
(same as mainstream pupil spreadsheet)
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Special Schools and Special Units Website
•Website page shows SENA guidance about what each element
should fund
•Each month SENA will load the Top Up spreadsheet onto the
website so schools can see their payment and annual forecast for
each pupil. A separate spreadsheet for Units and Special Schools
•Pupil names will be removed but Student ID, Unique Pupil
reference (UPN) and Date of Birth (DOB) will be shown for schools
to identify the pupil.
•Top Up spreadsheet will be password protected and passwords
will be AVCO’d to schools. Schools not using AVCO should contact
us for the password.
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• Special Schools and Special Unit MFG / Ceilings
•MFG of -1.5% and Ceilings of 4% per pupil have been calculated by
comparing funding under the old and new funding formulae and
applied as an adjustment to the budget.
•The adjustment will be fixed at the start of the year and will be paid or
deducted in 12 equal monthly instalments
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• Special Schools and Special Unit Payments
•Schools will receive 12 equal monthly payments for Places Fees and
MFG / Ceilings
•AND
•Top Ups will be paid monthly for the number of school days in each
month
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• Special Schools and Special Unit Start Dates
•All Special Schools will start on the new funding system from April
1st
•Units that are maintained will start on the new funding system from
April 1st BUT
•Units that become academies before March 31st will start on the new
funding system from September 1st ( Place fee pro rata’d for 7 months
to end of year, Top Ups paid from start of new academic year August
29th, Enhanced Packages paid for Summer Term)
• Units that become academies after March 31st will start on the new
funding system from April 1st
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• All Schools
• SENA will load the monthly spreadsheet onto the website – this will
show the monthly payment due and annual forecast for each pupil
No payments will be made outside this cycle and adjustments will
feed into the following month.
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•SENA will arrange BACS transfers for schools that manage their own
payrolls and a journal credit for schools using the LCC bank account
for their payroll
•LCC will only pay Top Ups for pupils that are LCC responsibility.
Pupils placed by Other Local Authorities (OLA’s) should be charged to
the appropriate OLA. Pupils are highlighted on the spreadsheets and
the value of their Top Up is deducted from our payment to you. OLA
Contact names are shown on the website.
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3 to 5 Year Budget Planning
•5 year budget planning spreadsheet will be available for modelling
mainstream top ups and Special Unit and Special School Top Ups
and Place Fees
•Website includes a spreadsheet called “Top Up Examples” which
allows schools to input Learning Support Assistant and Additional
Teacher Hours per the statement and calculate the top up value
that will be paid for a full school year and the daily rate (see
handout)
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Examples of statement hours and top ups
LSA
hourly
rate paid
(note 1)
11.81
13/14 rates
Additional teacher hours - hourly rate paid (note 2)
42.96
13/14 rates
Annual Support costs for schools to fund from Notional SEN
6,000
Divided by 190 = Daily Support Costs funded by schools
31.58
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LSA
hrs
ATH
hrs
LSA
annu
al
cost
ATH
annua
l cost
Annual
Support
Cost
a
divide
d by
190 =
Daily
suppo
rt cost
Daily
Schoo
l
contri
b to
suppo
rt
costs
Daily
Top up
payabl
e by
SENA
10.00
-
4,488
-
4,488
23.62
23.62
0.00
10.00
2.00
4,488
3,265
7,753
40.80
31.58
9.23
15.00
-
6,732
-
6,732
35.43
31.58
3.85
15.00
2.00
6,732
3,265
9,997
52.61
31.58
21.04
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