Data set from LA and school expenditure

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Published 16 December 2021

Last updated 16 December 2021

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Data set details

• Theme: Finance and funding
• Publication: LA and school expenditure
• Release: Financial year 2020-21
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Expenditure by local authority maintained schools (billion)
  • Income of local authority maintained schools (billion)
  • Percentage of local authority maintained schools in deficit
• Filters:
  • School or local authority
• 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	Indicator	expenditure_la_schools	income_la_schools	pc_deficit	la_schools	la_cyps	la_other	la_all
201516	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						LA maintained schools	27.10947	27.76893	6	:		:
201617	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						LA maintained schools	26.36603	26.6509	9.1	:		:
201718	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						LA maintained schools	24.56265	25.09738	10.2	:		:
201819	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						LA maintained schools	23.89184	23.97572	9.9	:		:
201920	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						LA maintained schools	23.73909	23.71372	12	:		:

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 8 variables

Variable name	Variable description
expenditure_la_schools	Expenditure by local authority maintained schools (billion)
income_la_schools	Income of local authority maintained schools (billion)
Indicator	School or local authority
la_all	Total expenditure by local authorities on schools, childrens and young peoples services and other education and community (billion)
la_cyps	Total expenditure by local authorities on childrens and young peoples services (billion)

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