Financial year 2022-23

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.

Release type
Published

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If you have a specific enquiry about LA and school expenditure statistics and data:

Workforce and Finance Statistics Team

Email: finance.statistics@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Workforce and Finance Statistics Team

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If you have a media enquiry:

Telephone: 020 7783 8300

Public enquiries

If you have a general enquiry about the Department for Education (DfE) or education:

Phone: 0370 000 2288

Opening times

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Official statistics

These are Official Statistics and have been produced in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (opens in new tab).

This can be broadly interpreted to mean that these statistics are:

  • managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
  • meet identified user needs
  • produced according to sound methods
  • well explained and readily accessible

Find out more about the standards we follow to produce these statistics through our Standards for official statistics published by DfE guidance (opens in new tab).

Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR).

OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab) that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.

You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about how we meet these standards. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing regulation@statistics.gov.uk or via the OSR website (opens in new tab).


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 
Minister of State
Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing
Minister for the School System and Finance
Schools, Children and Families Special Adviser
Parliamentary and communications Special Adviser
Social Media and Digital Comms Special Adviser
Permanent Secretary
Children's Social Care Local Government Funding Policy adviser
Deputy director, Funding policy unit 
Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics 
Economist - Local Government Funding team
Financial associate - Early Years Funding Team 
Funding officer - Funding Data and Financial Monitoring Team
Grade 6 - Data Insight Division
Grade 6 - Funding policy unit 
Grade 7 - Early Years Funding team
Grade 7 - EarlyYears Sufficiency and Entitlements Division
Grade 7 - High Needs Funding
Grade 7 - High Needs SEN funding
Grade 7 - Local Government Funding
Head of Data and Quality Assurance - AMSG funding division
Head of Early Years Funding
Head of Profession for Statistics 
Media Officer
Operational Researcher  - Children's Social Care Analysis
Policy adviser - VMFI
Policy Advisor - Early Years Funding Policy Unit
Policy advisor - family hubs programme
Programme Delivery Lead - ESFA
SARDIS Director
School Funding and Regulation.
Senior executive officer - Funding Data and Financial Monitoring Team
Senior Press Officer
Team Leader - Operational Research