Financial year 2021-22

Planned LA and school expenditure

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

Release type
Published
Last updated
1 updatefor Financial year 2021-22

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

Pupil and school finance data team

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

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

PS Advisors

Deputy Director - Private Office

Director - Education Funding Group

Director of Communications

Head of Media

Chief Media Officer

Chief Media Officer - News Division

Senior Media Officer x3 - News Division

Media Officer - News Division

Deputy Director - Early Years Funding and Markets

Deputy Director - Early Education Entitlements Portfolio

  1. Assistant Director - Data & Quality Assurance, Funding
  2. Team leader - Data & Quality Assurance, Funding 
  3. Assistant Director - Early Years Funding
  4. Team leader - Early Years Funding

Team leader - Children's Social Care
Team leader - Early Years Providers and Regulation

Executive Officer - Early Years Providers and Regulation

Deputy Director - Child Protection and LA Performance 

Assistant Director - Child Protection and LA Performance

Team leader - Children's Social Care Local Government Funding

Higher Executive Officer - Children's Social Care Local Government Funding

Deputy Director - Child Protection and LA Performance

Team leader - Social mobility, health and SEND in the Early Years

Deputy Director - Early Years Providers and Social Mobility

Assistant Director - Early Years Providers and Social Mobility