Financial year 2022-23

Planned LA and school expenditure

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

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• Published: 29 September 2022
• Last updated: 3 October 2022

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• Table 1: Planned expenditure on schools, by category of expenditure, and phase of school, England, financial year 2022-23

  This table contains planned expenditure by category and school type, for the financial year 2022-23, England. Data is unrounded.

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• Table 8b: Planned expenditure on early years, for 2 year olds, for each local authority for financial year 2022-23.

  The planned expenditure on early years, for 2 year olds, for each local authority in England for the financial year 2022-23.

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• Table 7: Planned expenditure on early years, by category and age group, England, financial years 2017-18 to 2022-23

  The planned expenditure on early years, by category and age group, England, for financial years 2017-18 to 2022-23. Data is unrounded.

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• Table 8a: Planned expenditure on early years, for 3 and 4 year olds, for each local authority for financial year 2022-23

  Planned expenditure on early years, for 3 and 4 year olds, for each local authority in England for the financial year 2022-23

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• Table 3: Planned expenditure on other education and community, by category of expenditure and phase of school, England, financial year 2022-23

  This table contains planned expenditure on other education and community, by category of expenditure and phase of school, England, financial year 2022-23. Data is unrounded.

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• Table 6: Total planned expenditure, income and net expenditure per capita, for children's and young peoples services, England, 2015-16 to 2022-23

  This table contains planned expenditure, income and net expenditure per capita, for children's and young peoples services, England, for the financial years 2015-16 to 2022-23. Data is unrounded.

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• Table 4: Total planned expenditure, income, and net expenditure per capita, for other education and community, England, financial years 2015-16 to 2022-23

  This table contains total planned expenditure, income, and net expenditure per capita, for other education and community, England, financial years 2015-16 to 2022-23. Data is unrounded.

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• Table 5: Planned expenditure, income and per capita expenditure, by category, on children's and young peoples services, England, 2022-23

  This table contains planned expenditure, income and per capita expenditure, by category, on children's and young peoples services, England, 2022-23. Data is unrounded.

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• Table 2: Total planned expenditure, income, and net expenditure per capita, England, financial years 2015-16 to 2022-23

  This table contains total planned expenditure, income and net expenditure per capita, England, for the financial years 2015-16 to 2022-23. Data is unrounded.

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• Table 4: Table 4: Planned expenditure on other education and community, by category of expenditure and phase of school, England, financial year 2022-23 and phase of school, England, financial year 2022-23

  Table 4: Planned expenditure on other education and community, by category of expenditure and phase of school, England, financial year 2022-23

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• Schools, other education and community - unrounded data

  Local authority, National, Regional

  This file contains the figures for planned expenditure on schools, other education and community categories for individual local authorities plus regional and national totals . Data is unrounded.

  • Number of rows: 107,004
  • Indicators:
    • Early years establishments
    • Per capita net planned expenditure
    • Planned income
  • Filters:
    • Category of expenditure
  • Time period: 2015-16 to 2022-23

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• Schools, other education and community - national rounded summary

  National

  This file contains the national figures for planned expenditure on schools and other education. Data is rounded to the nearest million.

  • Number of rows: 657
  • Indicators:
    • Early years establishments (£ million)
    • Per capita net planned expenditure
    • Planned income (£ million)
  • Filters:
    • Category of expenditure
  • Time period: 2015-16 to 2022-23

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• Children's and young people's services - unrounded data

  Local authority, National, Regional

  This file contains the figures for planned expenditure on children's and young peoples services for individual local authorities plus regional and national totals . Data is unrounded.

  • Number of rows: 47,233
  • Indicators:
    • Early years establishments
    • Per capita net planned expenditure
    • Planned income
  • Filters:
    • Category of expenditure
  • Time period: 2015-16 to 2022-23

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• Children's and young people's services - national rounded summary

  National

  This file contains the national totals for planned expenditure on children's and young peoples services . Data is rounded to the nearest million.

  • Number of rows: 290
  • Indicators:
    • Per capita net planned expenditure (£)
    • Planned income (£ millions)
    • Total gross planned expenditure (£ millions)
  • Filters:
    • Category of expenditure
  • Time period: 2015-16 to 2022-23

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• Early years - unrounded data

  Local authority, National, Regional

  This file contains the figures for planned expenditure and places for early years for individual local authorities plus regional and national totals . Data is unrounded.

  • Number of rows: 977
  • 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 2022-23

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• Early years - national rounded summary

  National

   This file contains the headline totals for each main category of planned expenditure and places for early years. Data is rounded to the nearest million.

  • Number of rows: 6
  • 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 2022-23

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• High needs places and funding - unrounded data

  Local authority, National, Regional

  This file contains the national totals for high needs pace funding . Data is rounded to the nearest million.

  • Number of rows: 1,266
  • 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 2022-23

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• High needs places and funding - school data

  School

   The number of planned high needs places and the planned expenditure for individual schools. This includes SEN places (both mainstream and special), alternative provision and hospital education as reported by local authorities in England for the financial year 2022-23.

  • Number of rows: 1,555
  • Indicators:
    • Number of PRU places between April 2022 and August 2022
    • Number of PRU places between September 2022 and March 2023
    • Number of SEN places between April 2022 and August 2022
  • Filters:
    • School type
  • Time period: 2022-23

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• ANNEX - Headline facts and figures - 2022-23

  National

  This file contains the headline totals rounded the nearest billion.

  • Number of rows: 1
  • Indicators:
    • Net planned expenditure per capita on children's and young peoples services
    • Net planned expenditure per capita on other education and community
    • Net planned expenditure per capita on schools budgets
  • Time period: 2022-23

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• ANNEX - National totals

  National

  This file contains the headline totals for each main category of planned expenditure. These are rounded to the nearest billion.

  • Number of rows: 40
  • Indicators:
    • Planned gross expenditure (£ billion)
    • Planned income (£ billion)
    • Planned net expenditure (£ billion)
  • Filters:
    • Main area of expenditure
  • Time period: 2015-16 to 2022-23

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Supporting files

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1 supporting data file

• High needs places by school

  This file contains the number of high needs places, pupil referral unit places and hospital school places by school. The number of places for the periods between April 2022 and August 2022 and September 2022 and March 2023 are shown, together with the total high needs funding for the financial year 2022-23.

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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. This includes a 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. This includes a time-series giving the detailed breakdown of spending category including  sure start centres, children looked after, family services and  youth justice.

Local authority planned spend on early years education. This includes the planned spend on early years education for 2, 3 and 4 years olds, by category of spend plus the number of hours of early year education . 

High needs places. This includes the number of places to be provided between April 2022 and August 2022 and the number of places to be provided between September 2022 to March 2023. It includes places in mainstream schools with resourced provision or SEN units, special schools, pupil referral units and hospital schools.  The total planned expenditure on these places is also included. 
 

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.

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)

low = where a figure round to zero but is not zero. In the summary tables the figures presented are rounded to £million, “low” in these tables represents a figure of £4,999 or less. 

 

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