Pupil Growth Fund 2015-16
Schools will continue to receive the following funding outside of their school allocations:
c. Pupil Growth Fund – where schools are requested to increase their pupil admission
number (PAN) by the local authority or where a new school is being established by the
authority the full pupil/class increase will be taken into account in determining the
funding. The allocations will be based on the following criteria;
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This
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applies to all maintained schools and academies;
The
Strategic Planning Team will
confirm with the school if the lower (15 pupil increase - £13 p.a.) or higher (30 pupil
increase - £48k p.a.) reimbursements rate will be utilised; and
confirm if an allocation for consumables is required.
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Funding
will be issued for the period from the intake of pupils to the subsequent issue
of the budget where the pupils are then included in the base budget;
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This
funding is calculated using Pupil Census data or schools admissions data.
Where school admission data is used to calculate the increase in pupil numbers this will
subsequently be verified by the following Pupil Census data and adjusted up or down as
applicable.
The level of funding per school is detailed below.
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Pupil Growth
Fund Rates for
2015-16 Pupil
Increase
15
30
45
60
75
90
Monthly
Funding Value
for Classroom
Support
(£)
1,042
3,917@
4,958
7,833
8,875
11,750
Monthly
Funding Value
for
Consumables
(£)
41
83
125
167
208
250
Monthly
Funding Value
Total
(£)
1,083
4,000
5,083
8,000
9,083
12,000
Note - @ - the indicative split (p.a.) is £38,000 (teacher) and £9,000 (Learning Support
Assistant).
The indicative allocation from the Growth Fund for each school will be identified in the
Schools budgets issued in February/March of each year.
The funding is mainly allocated to Schools in the June and November budget transfers.
For the 7 East Northants review schools the allocations will be made in August 2015
(covering Sept 15 to March 16), May 2016 (covering April 16 to August 16) and August
2016 (covering Sept 16 to March 17).