Purpose

To consider a report on the Dedicated Schools Grant as part
of the budget setting process for 2024/25.

Decision

Cabinet agreed to recommend the budgets
to Council to:
 

(a) 
Note the DSG
allocations for Slough (Table 1) as published by the Education and
Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)

 

(b) 
Approve the local
authority formula for allocating resources to Slough schools for
2024/25 as set out in Appendix A, the Authority Proforma Tool
(APT).

 

(c) 
Approve a transfer
from the Schools Block allocation of £100,000 to the Central
Schools Services Block and £761,539 to the High Needs Block
in the 2024/25 financial year (£861,539 being 0.5% of the
total schools' block allocation).

 

(d) 
Approve the Dedicated
Schools Grant Budget for 2024/25 at £231,514,470 including
the allocations between the four funding blocks as set out in this
report.

 

(e) 
Delegate authority to
the Executive Director – Children’s Services, in
consultation with the Lead Member for Children and Education and
the Executive Director for Finance and Commercial, to make minor
changes to the schools’ budget in year.