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Financial year 2023-24
Planned LA and school expenditure
Data guidance
Published
Description
This document describes the underlying data files included in the Planned LA and School Expenditure in England. 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 S251 Budget returns.
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 high needs places to be provided. 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.
Data files
All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.
Schools, other education and community - unrounded data
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.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
category_of_planned_expenditure
Category of expenditure - Filter by expenditure category
early_years_establishments
Early years establishments
gross_planned_expenditure
Total gross planned expenditure
income
Planned income
net_per_capita_planned_expenditure
Per capita net planned expenditure
net_planned_expenditure
Total net planned expenditure
post_16
Post 16 establishments
primary_schools
Primary schools
pupil_referral_units_and_alt_provision
Pupil referral units and alternative provision
secondary_schools
Secondary schools
sen_and_special_schools
SEN and Special schools
Footnotes
To reduce burdens on local authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, data for 2020-21 was not collected.
This file contains the figures for planned expenditure on children's and young people's services for individual local authorities plus regional and national totals. Data is unrounded.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
category_of_planned_expenditure
Category of expenditure - Filter by expenditure category
early_years_establishments
Early years establishments
gross_expenditure
Total gross planned expenditure
income
Planned income
net_expenditure
Total net planned expenditure
per_capita_net_spend
Per capita net planned expenditure
post_16
Post 16 establishments
primary_schools
Primary schools
pupil_referral_units_and_alt_provision
Pupil referral units and alternative provision
secondary_schools
Secondary schools
sen_and_special_schools
SEN and Special schools
Footnotes
To reduce burdens on local authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, data for 2020-21 was not collected.
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.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
AverageBaseRate_2YearOlds
Average base rate for entitlement hours for 2 year olds (spend per hour)
AverageBaseRate_EntitlementHours_3and4YearOlds
Average base rate for entitlement hours for 3 and 4 year olds (spend per hour)
AverageFundingRate_2YearOlds
Average funding rate for 2 year olds (spend per hour)
AverageFundingRate_3and4YearOlds
Average funding rate for 3 and 4 year olds (spend per hour)
BudgetExtraLocalHours_3and4YearOlds
Other spend on early education - budget for extra local hours for 3 and 4 year olds
CentrallyRetainedBudget_2YearOlds
Other spend on early education - centrally retained budget for 2 year olds
CentrallyRetainedBudget_3and4YearOlds
Other spend on early education - centrally retained budget for 3 and 4 year olds
ContingencyBudget_2YearOlds
Other spend on early education - contingency budget for 2 year olds
ContingencyBudget_3and4YearOlds
Other spend on early education - contingency budget for 3 and 4 year olds
DisabilityAccessFund_3and4YearOlds
Other spend on early education - disability access fund for 3 and 4 year olds
EarlyYearsPupilPremium_3and4YearOlds
Other spend on early education - early years pupil premium for 3 and 4 year olds
NumberHours_2YearOlds
Number of hours funded for 2 year olds (millions)
NumberHours_3and4YearOlds
Number of hours funded for 3 and 4 year olds (millions)
SEN_inclusion_fund_EYBlock_2YearOlds
SEN inclusion fund - from early years block funding for 2 year olds
SEN_inclusion_fund_EYBlock_3and4YearOlds
SEN inclusion fund - from early years block funding for 3 and 4 year olds
SEN_inclusion_fund_HNBlock_2YearOlds
SEN inclusion fund - from high needs block funding for 2 year olds
SEN_inclusion_fund_HNBlock_3and4YearOlds
SEN inclusion fund - from high needs block funding for 3 and 4 year olds
SEN_inclusion_fund_Total_2YearOlds
Total SEN inclusion fund for 2 year olds
SEN_inclusion_fund_Total_3and4YearOlds
Total SEN inclusion fund for 3 and 4 year olds
total_eysffbudget_3and4YearOlds
Total planned spend via early years single funding formula (EYSFF) - 3 and 4 year olds
TotalEYSFFBudget_2YearOlds
Total planned spend via early years single funding formula (EYSFF) - 2 year olds
Footnotes
To reduce burdens on local authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, data for 2020-21 was not collected.
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.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
AverageBaseRate_2YearOlds
Average base rate for entitlement hours for 2 year olds (spend per hour)
AverageBaseRate_EntitlementHours_3and4YearOlds
Average base rate for entitlement hours for 3 and 4 year olds (spend per hour)
AverageFundingRate_2YearOlds
Average funding rate for 2 year olds (spend per hour)
AverageFundingRate_3and4YearOlds
Average funding rate for 3 and 4 year olds (spend per hour)
BudgetExtraLocalHours_3and4YearOlds
Other spend on early education - budget for extra local hours for 3 and 4 year olds (million)
CentrallyRetainedBudget_2YearOlds
Other spend on early education - centrally retained budget for 2 year olds (million)
CentrallyRetainedBudget_3and4YearOlds
Other spend on early education - centrally retained budget for 3 and 4 year olds (million)
ContingencyBudget_2YearOlds
Other spend on early education - contingency budget for 2 year olds (million)
ContingencyBudget_3and4YearOlds
Other spend on early education - contingency budget for 3 and 4 year olds (million)
DisabilityAccessFund_3and4YearOlds
Other spend on early education - disability access fund for 3 and 4 year olds (million)
EarlyYearsPupilPremium_3and4YearOlds
Other spend on early education - early years pupil premium for 3 and 4 year olds (million)
NumberHours_2YearOlds
Number of hours funded for 2 year olds (millions)
NumberHours_3and4YearOlds
Number of hours funded for 3 and 4 year olds (millions)
SEN_inclusion_fund_EYBlock_2YearOlds
SEN inclusion fund - from early years block funding for 2 year olds (million)
SEN_inclusion_fund_EYBlock_3and4YearOlds
SEN inclusion fund - from early years block funding for 3 and 4 year olds (million)
SEN_inclusion_fund_HNBlock_2YearOlds
SEN inclusion fund - from high needs block funding for 2 year olds (million)
SEN_inclusion_fund_HNBlock_3and4YearOlds
SEN inclusion fund - from high needs block funding for 3 and 4 year olds (million)
SEN_inclusion_fund_Total_2YearOlds
Total SEN inclusion fund for 2 year olds (million)
SEN_inclusion_fund_Total_3and4YearOlds
Total SEN inclusion fund for 3 and 4 year olds (million)
total_eysffbudget_3and4YearOlds
Total planned spend via early years single funding formula (EYSFF) - 3 and 4 year olds (million)
TotalEYSFFBudget_2YearOlds
Total planned spend via early years single funding formula (EYSFF) - 2 year olds (million)
Footnotes
Data is from rounded national tables. For local authority or regional data, see unrounded local authority tables in "Explore data and files".
To reduce burdens on local authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, data for 2020-21 was not collected.
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 latest financial year.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
hospital_funding
Total funding for hospital education places
number_hospital_places_apr23_aug23
Number of hospital education places between April 2023 and August 2023
number_hospital_places_sept23_mar24
Number of hospital education places between September 2023 and March 2024
number_pru_places_apr23_aug23
Number of PRU places between April 2023 and August 2023
number_pru_places_sept23_mar24
Number of PRU places between September 2023 and March 2024
number_sen_places_apr23_aug23
Number of SEN places between April 2023 and August 2023
number_sen_places_sept23_mar24
Number of SEN places between September 2023 and March 2024