Financial year 2021-22

Planned LA and school expenditure

Local authority (LA) spending plans for education, children's services and social care.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 30 September 2021
• Last updated: 21 October 2021

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15 featured tables

• Table 3b: Planned expenditure by local authorities, other education and community budget, 2021-22

  Planned expenditure by local authority, on other education and community budget, 2021-22

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• Table 1c: Overview of planned expenditure, children's and young peoples services, 2015-16 to 2021-22

  Details of planned expenditure on children's and young peoples services by category of expenditure

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• Table 8: Planned spend on early years education by local authorities in England, 3 and 4 year old's

  Planned expenditure on early years education for and 4 year old's by LA

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• Table 2b: Other education and community budget by sector, 2021-22

  Detailed planned expenditure on other education and community budget, by sector, 2021-22

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• Table 3a: Planned expenditure by local authorities, on the schools budget, 2021-22

  Planned expenditure by local authorities on schools

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• Table 5: Planned net expenditure on other education and community budgets by local authority, 2016-16 to 2021-22

  Net expenditure on other education and community by local authorities, 2015-16 to 2021-22

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• Table 4: Planned net expenditure on individual schools budget by local authority, 2015-16 to 2021-22

  Net planned expenditure and net planned expenditure per capita by local authority

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• Table 1b: Overview of planned expenditure, other education and community , 2015-16 to 2021-22

  Details of planned expenditure on the other education and community budget, by category of expenditure

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• Table 6: Planned net expenditure on children's and young people's services, including youth justice, by local authority, 2015-16 to 2021-22

  Trends in LA planned net expenditure on children's and young peoples services by LA

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• Table 7: Planned expenditure on high needs places, by local authority, 2021-22, England

  Number of high needs places and planned high needs expenditure, 2021-22, by LA

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• Table 8: Planned spend on early years education by local authorities in England, 2 year old's

  Planned expenditure on early years education for 2 year old's, by LA, 2021-22

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• Table 3c: Planned expenditure by local authorities, on children's and young peoples services, 2021-22

  Planned expenditure for local authorities in other education and community budget

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• Table 1a: Overview of planned expenditure on the schools budget by local authorities, 2015-16 to 2021-22

  Details of planned expenditure on schools by category of expenditure

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• Table 2a: Schools budget by sector, 2021-22

  Detailed planned expenditure on the schools budget, by sector, 2021-22

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• Planned number of places and planned expenditure for high needs places, by school, as returned by local authorities for the financial year 2021-22

  The number of high needs places, and expenditure for these places, by school, for the financial year 2021-22

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• S251 Budget - High needs places by school

  School

  The number of planned high needs places,  and the planned expenditure per school. This includes SEN places (both mainstream and special), alternative provision and hospital education as reported by local authorities in England for the financial year 2021-22.

  • Number of rows: 1,567
  • Indicators:
    • Number of PRU places between April and August
    • Number of PRU places between September and March
    • Number of SEN places between April and August
  • Time period: 2021-22

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• S251 Budget - planned expenditure on children's and young peoples services

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Data on children's services and services for young people

  • Number of rows: 33,707
  • Indicators:
    • Gross planned expenditure
    • Income
    • Net planned expenditure
  • Filters:
    • Category of planned expenditure
  • Time period: 2015-16 to 2021-22

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• S251 Budget - total planned expenditure by local authorities

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Planned total expenditure by local authorities on education.

  • Number of rows: 978
  • Indicators:
    • Gross expenditure on items relating to LA maintained schools and all academies
    • Gross expenditure on items relating to total population aged between 0-17
    • Gross expenditure on items relating to total population aged between 0-19
  • Time period: 2015-16 to 2021-22

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• s251_budget_headlines

  National

  Headline figures rounded to the nearest million

  • Number of rows: 7
  • Indicators:
    • Total planned spend on children's and young peoples services
    • Total planned spend on other education and community budget
    • Total planned spend on schools
  • Time period: 2015-16 to 2021-22

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• s251 Budget - planned expenditure on other education and community budget

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Data on planned other education and community spending

  • Number of rows: 23,449
  • Indicators:
    • Early years establishments
    • Gross planned expenditure
    • Income
  • Filters:
    • Category of planned expenditure
  • Time period: 2015-16 to 2021-22

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• s251 Budget - planned expenditure on schools

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Data on planned schools spending

  • Number of rows: 57,475
  • Indicators:
    • Early years establishments
    • Gross planned expenditure
    • Income
  • Filters:
    • Category of planned expenditure
  • Time period: 2015-16 to 2021-22

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• S251 Budget - planned expenditure on early years education

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Data on early years

  • Number of rows: 652
  • Indicators:
    • Average base rate for entitlement hours for 2 year olds (spend per hour)
    • Average base rate for entitlement hours for 3 and 4 year olds (spend per hour)
    • Average funding rate for 2 year olds (spend per hour)
  • Time period: 2017-18 to 2021-22

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• S251 Budget - planned expenditure on high needs places

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Planned expenditure by local authorities on high needs places - SEN, PRU and hospital education.

  • Number of rows: 952
  • Indicators:
    • Number of PRU places between April and August
    • Number of PRU places between September and March
    • Number of SEN places between April and August
  • Time period: 2015-16 to 2021-22

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Supporting files

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1 supporting data file

• S251 Budget - School level high needs data

  This file contains the number of planned places and planned expenditure for all schools with high needs places. It includes mainstream and special SEN places, alternative provision places and hospital education places for the financial year 2021-22.

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

This document describes the data included in the Planned School Finance in England National Statistics release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data.

The methodology document should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.

Coverage

The Statistical Publication: ‘Planned LA and school expenditure’ provides the latest information at national, regional and local level on the planned  expenditure on schools, education and children's and young people's services by local authorities. The publication summarises the information that was collected via the S251 Budget collections. 

This publication includes information on:

Local authority planned spending on schools and other education - time-series giving the detailed breakdown of spending split by school-phase and overall spending area (e.g. individual schools budget, expenditure on free school meals, SEN support etc).
Local authority planned spending on children's and young people's services - time-series giving the detailed breakdown of spending split by provision sector (e.g. own, private, voluntary) and spending area (e.g. sure start centres, family services, youth justice etc).
 

File formats and conventions

The data files are provided in comma-separated values format, which is compatible with standard spreadsheet software such as Excel.

The following symbols are used in the underlying data files as follows:

: Not available - this information has not been collected or there are no estimates available at this level of aggregation.

N/A  Not available - this is normally where a statistic cannot be produced. For example where a denominator is not available to produce a percentage.

z = not applicable. The 'z' symbol is only to be used when an observation is not applicable (e.g. in tables of employment where people under 16 cannot legally be employed)

u - suppressed due to data quality concerns (please see methodology document for further details) 

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