LA expenditure on children's services - national rounded summary
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This file contains information on expenditure on children's services made by local authorities. Data is at national level and rounded to the nearest £ million. Data was collected via the S251 Outturn return made to the department in autumn 2024.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Finance and funding
- Publication
- LA and school expenditure
- Release
- Financial year 2023-24
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Grants inside of aggregate external finance (£ million)
- Grants outside of aggregate external finance (£ million)
- Income (£ million)
- Filters
- Category of expenditure
- Time period
- 2015-16 to 2023-24
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_name | country_code | category_of_expenditure | description_of_expenditure | own_provision | private_provision | other_public_sector_provision | voluntary_provision | total_expenditure | income | net_current_expenditure | grants_inside_AEF | grants_outside_AEF | net_revenue_expenditure | per_capita_net_current_spend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201516 | Financial year | National | England | E92000001 | Sure Start and children aged under 5 | 3.0.1 Spend on individual Sure Start Childrens Centres | 393.79 | 55.73 | 22.18 | 76.79 | 548.49 | 80.86 | 467.63 | 5.29 | 0.76 | 461.58 | 40 |
| 201516 | Financial year | National | England | E92000001 | Sure Start and children aged under 5 | 3.0.2 Spend for services delivered through Sure Start Childrens Centres | 60.02 | 14.25 | 12.01 | 15.32 | 101.61 | 10.24 | 91.37 | 0.02 | low | 91.35 | 8 |
| 201516 | Financial year | National | England | E92000001 | Sure Start and children aged under 5 | 3.0.3 Spend on management costs relating to Sure Start Childrens Centres | 40.32 | 0.11 | 0.14 | 0.04 | 40.6 | 2.29 | 38.31 | 0.55 | 0.02 | 37.75 | 3 |
| 201516 | Financial year | National | England | E92000001 | Sure Start and children aged under 5 | 3.0.4 Other spend on children under 5 | 139.92 | 5.29 | 0.96 | 7.08 | 153.25 | 22.94 | 130.32 | 2.62 | 0.04 | 127.65 | 11 |
| 201516 | Financial year | National | England | E92000001 | Sure Start and children aged under 5 | 3.0.5 Total Sure Start childrens centres and other spend on children under 5 | 634.05 | 75.38 | 35.29 | 99.23 | 843.95 | 116.32 | 727.63 | 8.48 | 0.82 | 718.33 | 63 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| description_of_expenditure | Category of expenditure - Filter by expenditure category |
| grants_inside_AEF | Grants inside of aggregate external finance (£ million) |
| grants_outside_AEF | Grants outside of aggregate external finance (£ million) |
| income | Income (£ million) |
| net_current_expenditure | Total net current expenditure (£ million) |
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