Issue - meetings

DA provided a report detailing expenditure against the budgets retained centrally in 2015/16.

Early Years

The Forum was advised that the centrally retained budget for Early Years was £506,424 of which £497,985 had been spent. However, there had been an overspend in Early Years 2, 3 and 4 year old provision of £341,611 giving a total overspend of £333,172. DA was addressing this mismatch in the DSG.

School Admissions

There was a minor overspend due to staff costs as reported at the previous meeting.

Servicing of Schools Forum

Nil variance against a budget of £43,250.

Capital Expenditure from Revenue

There was underspend of £30,665 due to a missed payment.  The Forum had already agreed at the last meeting to earmark some of the overall underspend DSG carry forward to cover the additional costs that would fall in 2017-18 because of the missed payment.

Termination of employment costs

Only £6k had been spent from a budget of £39k.  This budget was no longer required in 2017-18

Pupil Growth Fund

The £2.7m DSG budget had been increased to £2.8m from funding recouped from the EFA.  From this total budget there was an underspend of £500k which had been included in the overall DSG underspend carried forward.  The funding was allocated as follows:

The report was noted.