Does the revenue funding allocation allow for children from newly arrived families?
The situation is the same as the DSG funding allocation – if a child is included in the January count then the actual allocations will reflect this when they are finalised in the spring. If they are not in a school or early years provider on the day of the January count but join during the year, no extra funding will be given through the Standards Fund and the local authority is expected to absorb the cost of their provision. The Exceptional Circumstances Grant (ECG) has however, just been introduced to help those authorities who experience significant pressures on their Schools Budgets from increases in pupil numbers between the January and autumn censuses. This will be a one off payment paid to authorities who experience an increase in overall pupil numbers above 2.5% or an increase in pupils with English as an additional language above 2.5%.
