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1 Schools national funding formula Consultation response stage one - North Somerset Council Question 1 Do you agree with our proposed principles for the funding system? Yes. We also wonder whether this is an opportunity to move from two separate pre 16 and post 16 national funding formulae to one overall funding allocation incorporating both. It may also be worth considering other grants (such as universal infant free school meals) that could be incorporated in the main school funding allocations at the same time as this change is implemented In order for the formula to be considered fair there needs to be transparency about how it is built. Simply using averages of current funding levels will not generate any kind of fairness. The key component parts need to be transparent such as class sizes at each of the key stages. Question 2 Do you agree with our proposal to move to a school-level national funding formula in , removing the requirement for local authorities to set a local formula? No. We feel there is still a benefit to retaining some local decision making, through the schools forum, within a national framework. An example of this would be deprivation. The level, spread and pockets of deprivation are individual to each local authority area and can not necessarily be reflected in a national formula. The ability to continue to set the IDACI band values for example would be an example of how local circumstances can be reflected within a national framework. We are concerned about the proposal in this section of the consultation document that requires LAs to pass on all of their schools block funding to schools. This has a number of potential negative implications. Firstly, if LAs/schools forums retain responsibility for just high needs and early years, the pressure on high needs funding will not be able to be met by topslicing resources from the schools sector. The pressures on high needs funding, whilst improved, is not going to be solved by the proposals for the high needs block and therefore we are concerned that the early years sector will bear the impact of having to fund increases in demand led high needs funding. Alternatively, if the early years block is also ring fenced, pressure in the high needs block will have to be resourced by reducing other services to vulnerable children and young people. This position would generate significant concern about being able to meet need. Secondly, the link between the schools block and the high needs block can be used to incentivise good and inclusive practice in schools. At the moment for example schools funding could be reduced if out of authority placements go up to accommodate an increase in children and young people from schools. Supporting schools to understand the wider implications of their actions is helpful both financially and in terms of good outcomes. If the ability to subsidise high needs from the schools block is removed these incentives will be removed and will result in less inclusive practice and increased pressure in the high needs block. Further clarification is required about how both DSG under and overspends will be treated in the soft and hard national funding formula years. The lack of flexibility to 1

2 either use underspends, or recover overspends, may have a disproportionate effect on vulnerable children and young people. Question 3 Do you agree that the basic amount of funding for each pupil should be different at primary, key stage 3 and key stage 4? We accept that there is a difference in cost base between key stage 3 and 4 but there is also a difference in cost base between reception, key stage 1 and key stage 2. However, when taking the opportunity to establish a national funding formula we feel that both sectors should be treated consistently with either one basic amount of funding for each sector or a rate for each key stage (even if the values are the same). Having a value for each key stage will allow flexibility for the future e.g. to incorporate funding for universal infant free school meals. The value of the basic amount of funding needs to be based on the costs associated with the educational provision and not simply an average of existing funding levels. This needs to incorporate both the higher costs associated with KS4 provision, for example, and the evidence of improved outcomes from early intervention and support. Question 4 a) Do you agree that we should include a deprivation factor? b) Which measures for the deprivation factor do you support? Pupil-level only (current FSM and Ever6 FSM) Area-level only (IDACI) Pupil- and area-level a) Yes. However we are concerned that the weighting that is applied to the deprivation factor will be used to dampen the appropriate re-distribution of resources from more generously funded local authorities to those that are currently underfunded. The whole principle of fair funding will be undermined if the weighting that is applied to the deprivation factor is based on historic funding levels. It needs to be based on an assessment of need for children and young people from deprived backgrounds along with some clarity about what type of support should be funded from the schools delegated budget share and what from the pupil premium. b) We support the use of both pupil and area level deprivation factors. However, there are areas of concern with the proposed data. We feel that the values attached to funding using the current FSM data should be limited to reflect the cost of providing a free school meal. We feel that educational support for deprived pupils should be calculated using Ever6 FSM and IDACI. There are, however, concerns with both data sources. Ever6 FSM is becoming less meaningful as a data set for Primary Schools due to the introduction of the universal infant free schools meal and the subsequent reduction in those claiming eligibility for FSM. This of particular concern in areas of significant pupil growth especially in relation to new social housing where the needs of young children are unlikely to be appropriately represented in this data. In North Somerset Ever6 FSM has been used to recognise a wider distribution of deprivation across schools, whilst the IDACI data has been used to deliberately target funding to schools with significant proportions of their pupils from the most deprived areas. This, we believe, is important to recognise in a new systems and the IDACI bandings need to apply significant weightings to the highest levels of deprivation. Whilst we have used IDACI data for this purpose in North Somerset for a long time, its reliability as a 2

3 data source has been reduced given the reduction in the level of need in the most recent data set. If IDACI is used, consideration needs to be given to smoothing the impact when the data is updated every 5 years to avoid significant and opaque changes in funding. Question 5 Do you agree we should include a low prior attainment factor? Yes it is important that deprivation is not used as the only proxy indicator of special educational needs and disabilities. There are of course concerns about the data to be used and its reliability as an indicator of need given the amount of change in this area. We are disappointed that DLA is not being considered for use in the national funding formula for schools. Whilst not perfect it would at least ensure that the funding allocated takes into account the needs of those children and young people, who s SEN or disability does not affect their attainment levels. We would like the stage 2 consultation to include the DLA data so that we can consider its potential inclusion. We agree that a notional SEN budget should not be calculated for each school as part of the national funding formula. We feel that keeping this concept in the short term is pointless and a waste of the valuable time of SENCOs, school business managers and Headteachers. Question 6 a) Do you agree that we should include a factor for English as an additional language? b) Do you agree that we should use the EAL3 indicator (pupils registered at any point during the previous 3 years as having English as an additional language)? a) No. We are concerned about the use of this factor for a number of reasons. Firstly, some pupils with EAL are amongst the highest performers in the schools system and therefore this is not necessarily a strong factor to reflect additional needs we feel that this can be adequately reflected through the deprivation factor. Secondly, significant improvements will be needed to the data used if this factor is to be used for funding purposes. This is to ensure that the data does not capture languages that are unlikely to be representative of additional needs such as Cornish or Scottish. It can be difficult to cater for a small number of children with EAL compared to where there is a large community. Using this factor could result in funding being allocated where it is not required. Children with EAL in the early stages of their education are more likely to progress more quickly than a young person joining a schools with EAL in key stage 4. This will not be reflected by the proposed use of this data b) If this factor does end up being used then we would support the use of EAL3 Question 7 Do you agree that we should include a lump sum factor? Yes - but there needs to be some understanding of what costs it is supporting to ensure that it is justified rather than something that protects the status quo e.g. ensuring that schools receive a minimum level of funding for a headteacher, reception cover, SEN etc that they might not get if funded purely on data factors. 3

4 Question 8 Do you agree that we should include a sparsity factor? Yes but its weighting needs to be calculated in recognition of costs faced rather than historic funding levels. The proposed factor is complicated and does not adequately reflect cost pressures, for example there are not always spaces at the next nearest school. We also feel that the pupil numbers of 21.4 in each age group in Primary is too high for this funding. A level of 7.14 per age group seems more appropriate to ensure that this funding supports the smallest schools in rural areas. Question 9 Do you agree that we should include a business rates factor? Yes but we fully support the concept of rates not being included as part of individual schools funding if this can be achieved. Clarification is needed on whether we will still be able to effectively de-delegate rates for maintained schools in the future? If not how will in year and backdated increases and decreases in rates costs be reflected. This will also be an area of concern for academies. This could be a significant burden if it falls on individual schools. Work still need to be done to resolve the situation where rates for schools with 6 th forms is fully funded from the DSG. In many cases this may be irrelevant but it becomes a significant issue when new post 16 provision is established and funding for schools has to be cut to fund it. Question 10 Do you agree that we should include a split sites factor? Yes We are concerned however about the concept of using historic costs. This will not be appropriate for split site schools that are either new or growing where the split site factor is likely to increase. There needs to be a clear definition of a split site to ensure that funding is allocated to schools which face additional costs. The definition used in North Somerset is The buildings of the school are split by a public highway that are over 0.5 miles apart and that travel between the sites requires the use of a public highway. There is no single continuous boundary that includes all campuses in place. Question 11 Do you agree that we should include a private finance initiative factor? Yes as long as this takes into consideration how these costs are expected to increase or decrease in forthcoming years. Question 12 Do you agree that we should include an exceptional premises circumstances factor? Yes. Question 13 Do you agree that we should allocate funding to local authorities in and based on historic spend for these factors? Business rates Split sites Private finance initiatives Other exceptional circumstances Yes with the comments noted in questions 9, 10 & 11 above 4

5 Question 14 Do you agree that we should include a growth factor? Yes it is crucial that additional funding for pupil growth is reflected in the DSG. The current arrangements, where funding is lagged, has significantly impacted on the funding available for all children and young people in North Somerset and other areas of significant pupil growth. We would like to understand how the DfE plans to fund additional DSG funding for pupil growth presumably this will be through a national topslice before the schools block factor funding rates are calculated? The growth factor must include funding allocated through the LAs exceptional pupil growth policy, adjustments for growth in the APT (including split sites etc) and new schools funding policy including pre opening set up costs. The consultation says that the new schools block will need to be fully allocated to schools. There needs to be recognition that this will not happen until later in the year as funding will need to be held back and allocated later in the year for growth. Clarity will also be required about what will happened if the amount held back is either insufficient to meet the allocations to be made to schools or if there is funding remaining. We also need to know if the allocation of pupil growth funding is something that will be determined nationally or through local decision making. Question 15 Do you agree that we should allocate funding for growth to local authorities in and based on historic spend? No. We would prefer to see this funding being data driven as you suggest for However, if this is not possible for then we would support it being based on historic spend if there is an opportunity to present evidence to identify that the pattern of historic spend is not appropriate for the future. Data from other departments such as the ministry of defence should also be taken into consideration. Question 16 a) Do you agree that we should include an area cost adjustment? b) Which methodology for the area cost adjustment do you support? general labour market methodology hybrid methodology a) Yes but the weighting applied to the factor should be proportionate to the additional costs b) We support the hybrid methodology as this most closely represent the costs in the education sector. Question 17 Do you agree that we should target support for looked-after children and those who have left care via adoption, special guardianship or a care arrangements order through the pupil premium plus, rather than include a looked-after children factor in the national funding formula? Yes Question 18 Do you agree that we should not include a factor for mobility? Yes 5

6 Question 19 Do you agree that we should remove the post-16 factor from ? Yes but need to clarify that this funding will be distributed as part of the schools national funding formula and not the post 16 national funding formula. Question 20 Do you agree with our proposal to require local authorities to distribute all of their schools block allocation to schools from ? No We are concerned about this proposal as it has a number of potential negative implications. Firstly, if LAs/schools forums retain responsibility for just high needs and early years, the pressure on high needs funding will not be able to be met by topslicing resources from the schools sector. The pressures on high needs funding, whilst improved, is not going to be solved by the proposals for the high needs block and therefore we are concerned that the early years sector will bear the impact of having to fund increases in demand led high needs funding. Alternatively, we will have to ration support for some children with high needs to fund increases for others. Secondly, the link between the schools block and the high needs block can be used to incentivise good and inclusive practice in schools. At the moment, for example, schools funding could be reduced if out of authority placement go up to accommodate an increase in children and young people from schools. Supporting schools to understand the wider implications of their actions is helpful both financially and in terms of good outcomes. If the ability to subsidise high needs from the schools block is removed these incentives will be removed and will result in less inclusive practice and increased pressure in the high needs block. There needs to be recognition that the schools block will not be fully allocated until later in the year as funding will need to be held back and allocated later in the year for growth. Clarity will be required about what will happen if the amount held back is either insufficient to meet the allocations to be made to schools or if there is funding remaining. Question 21 Do you believe that it would be helpful for local areas to have flexibility to set a local minimum funding guarantee? Yes although it needs to be recognised that schools are facing significant cost pressures and this will add to these pressures Question 22 Do you agree that we should fund local authorities ongoing responsibilities as set out in the consultation according to a per-pupil formula? No The proposals for the retained element of the ESG seem reasonable, apart from the fact that the 15 is wholly unrealistic and subsidised by the general element of the grant. However the proposals for the general element of the ESG are completely unreasonable. This is a real and significant cut to maintained schools budgets without being offered any of the transitional protections that academies are being offered for the impact of this cut on their budgets. This is likely to be a very contentious issue and much more clarity is required about the decision making responsibility in relation to this area. Depending on the future funding decision of the LA/schools forum on this issue there could be significant termination of employment costs associated with this reduction in funding. If reductions are required as a result of schools forum funding decisions should be picked up by the DSG? How will this be possible if the schools budget has to be fully allocated? 6

7 Clarity is also required about potential TUPE implications when the funding for delivering statutory responsibilities transfers from the LA to maintained schools, or to academies as part of the drive to all school becoming academies. From what point in time will new academy converters not be entitled to receive the general ESG funding. Will this be 1st September 2017? What transitional protection will be offered to schools that convert between now and this point in time? Question 23 Do you agree that we should fund local authorities' ongoing historic commitments based on case-specific information to be collected from local authorities? Yes. Question 24 Are there other duties funded from the education services grant that could be removed from the system? Most of the elements funded by the ESG are very difficult to remove or would just increase the burden on schools Question 25 Do you agree with our proposal to allow local authorities to retain some of their maintained schools DSG centrally in agreement with the maintained schools in the schools forum to fund the duties they carry out for maintained schools? No LAs should be funded properly for the duties that they carry out for maintained schools. This proposal is a real and significant cut to maintained schools budgets without being offered any of the transitional protections that academies are being offered for the impact of this cut on their budgets Other We need to understand what will happen with any DSG overspends that will be carried forwards from Under the current arrangements the deficit could be recovered over time from the entirety of the DSG. With a ring fenced schools block this reduces our ability to recover the deficit and puts an undue burden on early years children and those with high needs. When will more information about the invest to save fund to support schools to make efficiency saving be announced? What will happen to under or over spends on the current de-delegations when they end? We may need to retain this for termination of employment costs for the dedelegated services or for elements of the general element of the ESG if maintained school reps on the schools forum can reduce the level of funding currently available. How will adjustments for permanent exclusions be calculated in the future, until the proposals in the white paper are implemented. Will this still be calculated by LAs or by the DfE/EFA and will it be based on a local or nationally agreed methodology? What happens to any balance of funding removed from schools for permanent exclusions when all of the schools block has to be allocated to schools. Is this an opportunity for the nationally arranged licences to be topsliced from the DSG and funded centrally by the DfE? This would support the principles of a more efficient system. 7

8 The stage 2 consultation needs to clarify the future role of the schools forum. How will the collective voice of schools be heard if the schools forum does not exist or only has responsibility for high needs. High needs funding formula and other reforms Consultation response stage one - North Somerset Council Question 1 Do you agree with our proposed principles for the funding system? Yes. Question 2 Do you agree that the majority of high needs funding should be distributed to local authorities rather than directly to schools and other institutions? Yes. Question 3 Do you agree that the high needs formula should be based on proxy measures of need, not the assessed needs of children and young people? Yes subject to using the right factors. Question 4 Do you agree with the basic factors proposed for a new high needs formula to distribute funding to local authorities? Please see details below: Basic entitlement We agree with this factor but do not agree with this being based on the January pupil numbers (unless this is updated during the year to reflect the January preceding the financial year). As AP provision is not included in these numbers we do not believe that there is a strong case for the January census providing a better reflection of average on roll over the year. The October count preceding the financial year should be used for this purpose. We need to understand the criteria and process for determining special units or resourced provision in FE. Population factor the document is not clear on whether this is a total population factor or one reflecting the population with high needs. If it is children and young people with high needs, we need to understand how a child or young person is identified as such within this data in order to respond to this proposal. There is an inconsistency between the consultation document and the technical guidance with one saying that the population factor will be 2 to 18 and the other It would be good if this factor could reflect changes in the proportion of high needs students as well as increases and decreases in the total population. In this way it reflects the level of high needs in each LA as compared to other LA and the general increase or decrease in the population for this age group. We believe that this should include young people up to the age of 25. North Somerset is a net importer of young people with high needs post 16 and children and young people in North Somerset will be disadvantaged if the full post 16 age range is not reflected. Health and disability factors We are pleased to see DLA included in this data set. Is there any that equivalent data for post 16 so that this age group can also be reflected? We are, however, concerned about the data that is proposed to be used as a measure of child health. Firstly this data is only updated every 10 years and therefore is not a sound ongoing measure of need. Secondly the data depends on whether parents complete the census saying that their child is in bad or very bad health. The data is therefore subjective and unreliable. We would prefer to see robust data from the NHS used for this purpose. 8

9 Low attainment factor We support the use of this data and the levels that are proposed. However, this should be based on data for several years rather than data for one particular year to create a more sustainable proxy indicator of need. The same methodology as used for the school prior attainment factor could be applied. Deprivation We would prefer Ever6 FSM to be used because of the impact that universal free school meals has had on the number of parents registering their eligibility for FSMs. This data should also be based on the October count preceding the financial year rather than January, which would result in the data being much more out of date. If IDACI is used, consideration needs to be given to smoothing the impact when the data is updated every 5 years to avoid significant and opaque changes in funding. Question 5 We are not proposing to make any changes to the distribution of funding for hospital education, but welcome views as we continue working with representatives of this sector on the way forward. We support this approach Question 6 Which methodology for the area cost adjustment do you support? We support the hybrid methodology as this most closely represent the costs in the education sector. The weighting applied to the factor should be proportionate to the additional costs Question 7 Do you agree that we should include a proportion of spending in the formula allocations of funding for high needs? Yes but we need to understand what proportion of the high needs block will be based on the formula and how much on historic costs and how this will change over the 5 year period Question 8 Do you agree with our proposal to protect local authorities high needs funding through an overall minimum funding guarantee? Yes the consultation document was not clear that a minimum funding guarantee would need to be funding by a cap on gains. This needs to be clearly understood. We also need to understand how the minimum funding guarantee, and the element of the high need block that is based on historic costs, will work together. We need to ensure that there is no duplication of protection. Question 9 Given the importance of schools decisions about what kind of support is most appropriate for their pupils with SEN, working in partnership with parents, we welcome views on what should be covered in any national guidelines on what schools offer for their pupils with SEN and disabilities. Question 10 We are proposing that mainstream schools with special units receive per pupil amounts based on a pupil count that includes pupils in the units, plus funding of 6,000 for each of the places in the unit; rather than 10,000 per place. Do you 9

10 agree with the proposed change to the funding of special units in mainstream schools? No We believe that special units should continue to be funded in the same way as special schools. This will disadvantage schools with special units in low funded LAs and advantage those in higher funded LAs where the basic pupil funding is higher. It will also disadvantage primary schools with special units over secondary schools as the per pupil funding is generally lower in primary schools. Finally it will disadvantage schools with special units where the needs of the students that they support is not likely to trigger other formula factors such as deprivation or low prior attainment. Question 11 We therefore welcome, in response to this consultation, examples of local authorities that are using centrally retained funding in a strategic way to overcome barriers to integration and inclusion. We would be particularly interested in examples of where this funding has been allocated on an invest-to-save basis, achieving reductions in high needs spending over the longer term. We would like to publish any good examples received. Question 12 We welcome examples of where centrally retained funding is used to support schools that are particularly inclusive and have a high proportion of pupils with particular types of SEN, or a disproportionate number of pupils with high needs. We have looked at a number of options to do this over recent years along with the methods used by other LAs. As yet we have not found a suitable data source that both reflects schools with a high proportion of children in receipt of top up funding and those with a high proportion of children with special educational needs but which don t exceed 6,000. Question 13 Do you agree that independent special schools should be given the opportunity to receive place funding directly from the EFA with the balance in the form of top-up funding from local authorities? Yes but this needs to go along with the understanding that independent schools will have to operate within the LAs top up funding framework and not just continue to send invoice for their fees less 10k place funding. Question 14 We welcome views on the outline and principles of the proposed changes to post- 16 place funding (noting that the intended approach for post-16 mainstream institutions which have smaller proportions or numbers of students with high needs, differs from the approach for those with larger proportions or numbers), and on how specialist provision in FE colleges might be identified and designated. We need to understand the criteria and process for determining special units or resourced provision in FE before we are able to fully engage with the proposed changes to post 16 place funding. We also need to understand the arrangements for high needs in schools 6 th forms as this is also not clear from the document. Other We agree that a notional SEN budget should not be calculated for each schools as part of the national funding formula. We feel that keeping this concept in the short term is pointless and a waste of the valuable time of SENCOs, school business managers and Headteachers. 10

11 When will we know more about the proposed help for LAs and institutions to enable future costs to be reduced, capital funding and encouragement to schools and colleges to include children and young people with SEN? Will early years high needs arrangements be covered as part of the early years fair funding consultation due out later this year? 11

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