LA and school expenditure
Local authority and school spending on education, children's services and social care across financial years. Also includes income of LA maintained schools.
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- Department for Education
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- Last updated
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Workforce and Finance Statistics Team
Email: finance.statistics@education.gov.ukContact name: Workforce and Finance Statistics Team
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- managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
- meet identified user needs
- produced according to sound methods
- well explained and readily accessible
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Pre-release access list
Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.
| Prime Minister |
| Secretary of State for Education |
| Minister of State for Schools |
| Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Lords |
| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families |
| Permanent Secretary |
| Special advisors |
| Academies briefing team leader |
| Acting Deputy Director, Early Years Quality and Outcomes |
| Assistant Director, Child Protection and LA Performance |
| Assistant Director, Data & Quality Assurance, Funding |
| Assistant Director, High Needs, Efficiency and Accountability |
| Capital Efficiency and Capability Lead |
| Chief Media Officer |
| Communications Manager x 3 |
| Data & Quality Assurance, Funding |
| DD, CSC Central Division |
| Deputy Director, Child Protection and LA Performance |
| Director General, Early Years and Schools Group |
| Economic Adviser |
| Executive Officer, Early Years Providers and Regulation |
| Head of Data Insight and Statistics Division |
| Head of Funding policy unit |
| Head of LA Analysis and Engagement |
| Head of Schools Resource Management - Portfolio Management Team |
| Higher Executive Officer, Children's Social Care Local Government Funding |
| LG funding analyst |
| LG funding team |
| Media officer |
| Policy lead, Early years funding |
| Policy lead, High needs funding policy |
| Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State |
| Senior Executive Officer, Early Years and Childcare |
| Senior Executive Officer, Early Years Funding |
| Senior Executive Officer, Academies briefing team |
| Senior Media Officer |
| Statistician, Funding policy unit |
| Strategic Finance Director |
| Team Leader - LA engagement |
| Team leader, Children's Social Care |
| Team leader, Data & Quality Assurance, Funding |
| Team leader, Early Years Funding |
| Team leader, High Needs/SEN Funding |
| Team leader, Social mobility, health and SEND in the Early Years |
| Team leader, Children's Social Care |
| Team leader, Local Authorities and Funding |