William Michael Connolley (Bar Hill). Anna Gomori-Woodcock (Newnham). Simon Saggers (Bassingbourn).
The Green Party is currently reviewing government proposals for longer school days to << help working parents >>
Cambridge & South Cambs greens campaigning for more and better schools and school resources. The Green Party is commited to education for all from an early age - and promotes out of hours educational, recreational and sports activities.
School budgets are funded through a combination of income sources - business rates, council tax, government grants and through the government’s local government settlement. If you are interested in how schools’ budgets fit into the overall County Council Budget or how school funding in Cambridgeshire compares with other authorities (Benchmark Data) please click the links on the left.
The Schools’ Budget is a term used to bring together both individual school’s budgets (called the ISB) and school monies managed centrally on their behalf. If you are interested in this split you will find details in the LEA Budget Statements on the link to the left.
The financial rules and regulations within which schools work and the distribution formula used to allocate funding to schools is set out in a legal document called the School Funding Scheme. The formula used includes allocations for pupils with Special Educational Needs, etc so we have included a link on the left to find out more about this.
The Key Statements, useful for seeing how much funding a particular school receives, how this is made up, or how the school has spent it’s funding, are:-
· School Budgets (Section 52)
Funding made available annually to schools, showing how the funding is made up and how this compares with other county schools
· End of Year Statements (Section 52)
How the school has spent the funding available to it, including any year-end balances unspent/overdrawn.
The ELH (Education, Libraries & Heritage) Finance Service both calculates and monitors school funding, and provides financial advice to schools through a traded service.