Data set from LA and school expenditure

S251 Outturn - Schools and other education (National, Regional, LA levels)

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Published 16 December 2021

Last updated 16 December 2021

This file contains details of school expenditure and other education and community expenditure by local authorities collected via the Section 251 Outturn return.  

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Data set details

• Theme: Finance and funding
• Publication: LA and school expenditure
• Release: Financial year 2020-21
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Income (£ million)
  • Per pupil net expenditure (£)
  • Spend on early years establishments (£ million)
• Filters:
  • Category of expenditure
• Time period: 2015-16 to 2020-21

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_name	country_code	region_name	region_code	la_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	main_category	category_of_expenditure	early_years_establishments	primary_schools	secondary_schools	sen_and_special_schools	pupil_referral_units_and_alt_provision	post_16	gross_expenditure	income	net_expenditure	net_per_capita_expenditure
201516	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						Dedicated schools grant	1.9.1 Dedicated Schools Grant for year	:	:	:	:	:	:	27116.27692	:	:	:
201516	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						Dedicated schools grant	1.9.2 Dedicated Schools Grant brought forward from previous year	:	:	:	:	:	:	1234.57826	:	:	:
201516	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						Dedicated schools grant	1.9.3 Dedicated Schools Grant carried forward to next year	:	:	:	:	:	:	584.07808	:	:	:
201516	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						Dedicated schools grant	1.9.4 Grant for maintained school 6th forms	:	:	:	:	:	:	705.88814	:	:	:
201516	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						Dedicated schools grant	1.9.5 Local Authority additional contribution	:	:	:	:	:	:	24.69192	:	:	:

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 11 variables

Variable name	Variable description
category_of_expenditure	Category of expenditure - Filter by expenditure category
early_years_establishments	Spend on early years establishments (£ million)
gross_expenditure	Total gross expenditure (£ million)
income	Income (£ million)
net_expenditure	Total net expenditure (£ million)

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