Financial year 2024-25

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
Last updated
1 updatefor Financial year 2024-25

Get help by contacting us

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

Press office

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

Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 5.30pm (closed on bank holidays)


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.

  • Permanent Secretary
  • Director General
  • Grade 6 - Data Insight 
  • Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics 
  • Head of Profession for Statistics
  • School Funding and Regulation
  • SARDIS Director
  • Funding officer - Funding Data and Financial Monitoring Team
  • Senior executive officer - Funding Data and Financial Monitoring Team
  • Team Leader - Operational Research
  • Operational Researcher - Children's Social Care Analysis 
  • Grade 6 - funding policy unit
  • Policy adviser – Financial benchmarking and Insights 
  • School Funding and Regulation 
  • Children's Social Care Local Government Funding Policy 
  • Financial associate - Early Years Funding Team
  • Grade 7 - Early Years Sufficiency and Entitlements Division
  • Grade 7 - High Needs SEN funding
  • SEO - SFSO Local Authority Analysis and Engagement Team
  • Grade 7  - SFSO Local Authority Analysis and Engagement Team
  • Grade 6  - SFSO Local Authority Analysis and Engagement Team
  • Deputy Director - SFSO Local Authority Analysis and Engagement Team
  • Deputy Director, Funding policy unit 
  • Grade 7 - Early Years Funding team 
  • Chief Media Officer 
  • Media Officer 
  • Media Officer