Appendix A
FINANCIAL UPDATE DECEMBER 2013
REPORT TO SCHOOLS FORUM
SUMMARY
A summary statement detailing the outturn for 2013-14 and a forecast for 2014-15 and 2015-16 is included below. The 2013-14 budget is currently forecast to be £92k over-spent.
2013/14 / 2013/14 / 2013/14 / 2014/15 / 2015/16Budget / Forecast / Variance / Forecast / Forecast
£k / £k / £k / £k / £k
Independent special school fees / 4,365 / 4,457 / (92) / 4,553 / 4,104
Independent Specialist Providers/ FE Packages / 304 / 264 / 40 / 454 / 428
SEN packages (Poole & other LA schools) / 870 / 794 / 76 / 789 / 840
SEN support services (including equipment) / 89 / 101 / (12) / 88 / 86
Poole Special School costs / 2,248 / 2,249 / (1) / 2,272 / 2,337
Other special school costs / 78 / 160 / (82) / 285 / 318
Top up funding Quay School SEN places / - / 54 / (54) / 79 / 95
Support for inclusion (Special School outreach) / 265 / 265 / - / 265 / 265
Sensory Impaired / 286 / 253 / 33 / 286 / 286
TOTAL / 8,505 / 8,597 / (92) / 9,071 / 8,759
INDEPENDENT SPECIAL SCHOOLS
2013-14 / 2014-15 / 2015-16Budget / Forecast / Forecast / Forecast
FTE / Cost / FTE / Cost / FTE / Cost / FTE / Cost
Langside / 7.00 / 227,291 / 7.00 / 223,958 / 7.00 / 226,556 / 6.33 / 206,921
Portfield / 14.33 / 581,490 / 14.96 / 638,170 / 15.00 / 656,422 / 15.00 / 662,986
Victoria / 11.33 / 333,768 / 13.22 / 360,142 / 14.00 / 376,341 / 14.00 / 380,104
St. Edwards – Romsey / 16.64 / 1,012,177 / 16.30 / 989,792 / 14.99 / 947,745 / 5.96 / 382,889
Wing Centre / 3.67 / 284,377 / 3.67 / 281,768 / 0.99 / 80,932
Other Special Schools / 25.00 / 1,926,407 / 22.47 / 1,907,852 / 20.53 / 1,883,038 / 19.53 / 1,834,223
Pending Cases / 0.67 / 55,488 / 3.66 / 216,857 / 4.00 / 229,741
New Cases / 0.00 / 0 / 2.64 / 165,483 / 6.64 / 407,373
77.97 / 4,365,510 / 78.29 / 4,457,170 / 78.81 / 4,553,374 / 71.46 / 4,104,237
Variance / (91,660)
· The budget is forecast to be £91,661 overspent for 2013 / 14 financial year.
· The Borough of Poole provided £330k to the DfE for NMSS place funding for 2013-14, therefore the total cost of Independent Special Schools to the DSG is £4,794k for the 2013-14 year. It is anticipated that the NMSS place funding will rise to £360k in 2014-15.
· Places at St Edward’s School in Romsey are expected to reduce as young people move to Tregonwell Academy instead.
· Pending cases are for one new pupil at Langside School from January 2014, a mover in to Victoria Education Centre, a new place for a young person currently at Montacute School, and a specialist placement for a young person currently at Longspee School.
· There is no provision for new cases in 2013 / 14 year.
· There is provision for 4 new cases with effect from September 2014 and 4 new cases from September 2015.
· There have been two high cost residential placements needed with effect from September 2013, for which there will be a full year cost for in 2014 / 15.
INDEPENDENT SPECIALIST PROVIDER AND FURTHER EDUCATION
COLLEGE PACKAGES
High Needs Caseload Post 16 / 2013 / 14 / 2014 / 15 / 2015 / 16FTE / Cost / FTE / Cost / FTE / Cost
Bournemouth and Poole / 5.28 / 32,583 / 5.96 / 33,913 / 6.32 / 29,657
Brockenhurst / 2.64 / 1,783 / 4.66 / 3,120 / 3.65 / 3,789
Kingston Maurward / 3.96 / 18,992 / 5.98 / 30,388 / 4.64 / 22,563
Farleigh / 0.66 / 37,965 / 1.00 / 56,948 / 0.33 / 18,983
Foxes Academy / 1.98 / 74,925 / 2.33 / 91,753 / 0.66 / 27,145
Queen Alexandra / 0.66 / 29,145 / 1.00 / 43,718 / 0.33 / 14,573
Royal National College / 0.66 / 24,635 / 0.33 / 12,318 / 0 / 0
St Catherine’s, IOW / 0.66 / 29,295 / 1.00 / 43,943 / 0.33 / 14,648
Sheiling / 0.66 / 14,645 / 1.00 / 21,967 / 0.33 / 7,322
New ISP Cases / 1.98 / 115,658 / 4.98 / 289,145
TOTAL / 17.16 / 263,969 / 25.24 / 453,726 / 21.57 / 427,825
BUDGET / 303,491
VARIANCE / 39,522
· Place funding for high needs students funding is £11k for Independent Specialist Providers and £6k for Local Colleges in 2013-14. In 2014-15 all places are funded at £10k from August 2014.
· Pupils placed at local colleges are at Bournemouth and Poole College, Brockenhurst College and Kingston Maurwaud College.
· Students at Farleigh College, Foxes Academy, Queen Alexandra College, Royal National College and St Catherine’s are all residential.
SEN PACKAGES
2013 /14 SEN PROVISION SUMMARY / 2014 / 15 / 2015 / 16Poole Pupils in: / Budget / Allocation to Date / Forecast / Variance Under / (Over) / Forecast / Forecast
Poole Schools / 716,636 / 716,636 / 676,352 / 667,283
Bournemouth Schools / 47,776 / 47,776 / 37,478 / 38,682
Dorset Schools / 25,614 / 25,614 / 25,389 / 25,643
Additional hours / 1,029 / 11,417 / 11,531
Future Impact of in-year changes / 17,922 / 76,474
Additional caseload / 6,005 / 47,647 / 48,123
Leavers to special / (3,431) / (27,227) / (27,499)
Sub Total / 870,100 / 790,026 / 793,629 / 76,471 / 788,978 / 840,237
SEN support services / 78,616 / 90,893 / 90,893 / (12,277) / 78,049 / 75,614
Specialist equipment / 10,000 / 1,715 / 10,000 / 0 / 10,000 / 10,000
Sub Total / 88,616 / 92,608 / 100,893 / (12,277) / 88,049 / 85,614
TOTAL / 958,716 / 882,634 / 894,522 / 64,195 / 877,027 / 925,851
2013/14 forecast
· With effect from April 2013, schools now provide the first 15 hours of support for all pupils who have a package of support.
· The budget has been calculated with a forecast for 1.75 additional cases every month of 10 hours being agreed at MAAG (17.5 hours in total).
· Ad-hoc payments are for speech and language therapy fees, LOVASS fees, ABA Programme fees, home tuition fees, alternative curriculum fees, fees for homework support and Early Bird Plus fees.
· At the moment the budget is forecast to be £64,195 under-spent for the 13/14 financial year.
Future Years forecast
· The table shows the forecast cost of additional support for all Poole pupils with a statement and a package of support in a mainstream school.
· There is a reduction from 2013/14 forecast to 2014/15 forecast. This is partly because the new funding arrangements for Academies did not take effect until September 2013 for which the DfE provided additional DSG support for the Summer Term. Also the delegation of £6,000 for post 16 pupils for all schools took effect from August 2013. Consequently, the Authority paid more funding to the Academy Schools and for post 16 pupils for the Summer 2013 term than it would do under the new arrangements.
· DSG funding will reduce in 2014/15 to take account of the full year impact of funding reform for academy and post 16 pupils.
TOP UP FUNDING – SPECIAL SCHOOL PLACES
2013 / 14 / 2014 / 15 / 2015 / 16Schools: / FTE / 2013-14 / Year End Forecast / Variance / FTE / 2014 /15 Forecast / FTE / 2015 /16 Forecast
Budget
Longspee / 37.92 / 582,000 / 603,169 / (21,169) / 39.00 / 611,699 / 40.00 / 628,786
Winchelsea / 97.50 / 794,848 / 819,961 / (25,113) / 96.42 / 865,042 / 98.75 / 896,134
Montacute / 56.17 / 871,152 / 826,252 / 44,900 / 53.58 / 795,738 / 54.42 / 811,658
Beaucroft / 7.75 / 42,272 / 45,369 / (3,097) / 9.58 / 55,765 / 11.17 / 64,856
Linwood / 7.00 / 13,812 / 44,762 / (30,950) / 8.58 / 54,886 / 9.58 / 61,281
Oak Lodge / 0.5 / 90 / (90)
Tregonwell / 2.58 / 8,295 / 48,477 / (40,182) / 9.33 / 152,992 / 9.83 / 170,908
Westfield / 3.00 / 13,425 / 21,060 / (7,635) / 3.00 / 21,060 / 3.00 / 21,060
The Quay School / 2.55 / 53,810 / (53,810) / 4.22 / 79,156 / 4.23 / 95,393
TOTAL / 214.97 / 2,325,804 / 2,462,950 / (137,146) / 223.71 / 2,636,338 / 230.98 / 2,750,076
· The table shows the cost of places for Poole pupils in maintained special schools and academies.
· Schools receive funding of £10k for every place agreed for the financial year.
· The Local Authority tops up the costs of the pupil’s place dependent upon their banding.
· It is anticipated that this budget will be £83k overspent for 2013 / 14.
SUPPORT FOR INCLUSION – OUTREACH FROM SPECIAL SCHOOLS
· A fixed cost SLA is provided annually with access through MAAG. Special School outreach SLA costs total £265k as follows:
· Longspee £128k
· Winchelsea £73k
· Montacute £64k.
SENSORY IMPAIRED SERVICE
· The forecast for the 2013/14 financial year is a cost of £286k. However, the DCC invoice for the 2012/13 financial year was £33k less than anticipated with the saving accounted for in the 2013/14 financial year.
CONCLUSION
Additional funding will be required for 2014/15 financial year in line with the estimated forecasts given in this report.
The SEN schools partnership group will continue to monitor the SEN budget and School’s Forum will receive regular updates.
The Borough recognises the financial risks posed in this report for 2014/15 financial year and beyond.
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