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Academy Sixth Form Funding 2014/15
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What will be covered
• Useful documents
• Refresh what the elements of the formula are
• What we can confirm
Since last year’s presentation
For 2014/15
• Timeline for 2014/15
• What is still to be resolved
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Useful Documents
http://www.education.gov.uk/aboutdfe/executiveagencies/efa/a00210682/funding-formula-review
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Total Programme
Funding
Programme Cost
Weighting
Disadvantage Funding
Area Cost
Allowance
Student Numbers
National Funding Rate per student
Retention Factor( )
The funding formula
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Student numbers This is a count of students to be funded, based on the autumn
census
Students must meet qualifying period:
• 2 weeks for programme < 24 weeks
• 6 weeks for programme > 24 weeks
Either RPA (Raising Participation Age) compliant (540 Hours+)
Or banded (less than 540 hours)
For 2014/15, Band 4 funded at the same rate 540 hours +
Band 1 - Full Time Equivalent (FTE), that is a proportion of 600Student Status
RPA Compliant
Band 4 Band 3 Band 2 Band 1
Hours reqd. per Academic
Year
540+ 450-539 360-449 280-359 up to 280
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Data used to calculate student numbers
Autumn Census data used to identify funding bands
Allocation Student numbers data from:
Funding Band proportion data from:
2013/14 academic year 2012/13 2011/12
2014/15 academic year 2013/14 2012/13
2015/16 academic year 2014/15 2013/14
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Planned hours eligible for funding
• Directly relevant to the study programmeRelevant
• Explicit in the Learning Plan or TimetablePlanned
• Hours that are supervised and/or organised by the institutionSupervised
• Hours that are quality assured by the institutionQuality
Assured
• Hours that are within a normal working pattern
Normal Working Pattern
• Where it meets the criteria set out above, is time limited and the weekly hours do not exceed the student’s planned weekly hours for the overall study programme
Study Leave
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Recording planned hours for funding purposes
• Hours that are delivered towards qualifications that are approved for teaching to 16-19 year olds under section 96 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000
Qualification Hours
• Do not count towards a qualification on section 96• Informal Certificates• Non-qualification activity• Tutorial activity• Work experience/Work related activity• Volunteering/Community activities• Enrichment activities
Non Qualification
Hours
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Hours that do not count for funding
• Voluntary extra-curricular activities and clubs delivered during breaks or outside normal working pattern
Voluntary
• Study that is homework or independent study/research that is not timetabled
Homework
• Employment or work experience organised by anyone other than by or on behalf of the provider
Employment
• Volunteering or community activities that are not organised by or on behalf of the provider
Volunteering
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• FPF will be paid for at least three academic years, until and including 2015/16
• It applies where the move to a basic funding rate per student would otherwise result in a reduction in funding per student
• Enables institutions to move on with curriculum reforms and simplification
Formula protection funding (FPF) (1)
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Formula protection funding (2)
For the first of the three years -calculated by comparing
funding per student allocated for 2013/14 (excluding
transitional protection) with funding per student for 2012/13
The operation of formula protection funding for future
years has still to be determined and has been considered
within the Ministerial Working Group along with
consideration of funding of large programmes.
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Condition of funding - English and Maths
Any student 16-18 (inclusive) without a grade C in English and/or
maths must be working towards this level
Students must enrol on GCSE, Functional Skills (FS), Free
standing maths or ESOL
FS is a stepping stone towards GCSE and not an end in itself
If the student already has a FS at level 2 then must enrol on
GCSE
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Condition of funding - English and Maths (2) Students not meeting the condition of funding in 2014/15
WILL NOT be counted in lagged funding for 2016/17
EFA will be issuing a report to show you how you are doing
DfE will publish a list of what counts as having a grade C
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Planned hours data collection for 2013/14
Planned hours for activity in the current academic year
• Census changes will not be made until the autumn census
2014
• Need to calculate planned hours for each student for
2013/14
• Retrospectively record in the autumn census planned hours
relating to the current academic year
• Autumn census 2014 will also collect planned hours for the
2014/15 academic year
• Discussions with software suppliers
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Retakes
• For a transitional year in 2013/14 the planned hours for students repeating activity studied in 2012/13 can be counted
• Subsequently re-takes will not generally be eligible for funding unless are exceptional circumstances outside the control of the student or institution, such as a period of long term sickness, or good educational reasons
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Timeline
Key Dates for 2014 to 2015 allocations (Schools/Academies)
Date Event
October 2013 Letter to sector on 2014/15 policy and processSchool census closes
January 2014 Send out school funding factors and lagged numbers
February Deadline for business cases to be with EFA
March Send out school funding allocations
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Data sources
• Lagged student numbersAutumn Census 2013
• Programme size (FT/PT)• Funding Factors (Retention, Programme Cost
Weighting, Disadvantage Block 1 – Economic)
Autumn Census 2013 –
end year 2012/13
• Disadvantage block 2 (Prior attainment)YP Matched
Administrative Data 2011/12
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Infrastructure cases
• Year 1 – 1/3rd capacity• Year 2 – double actual from year 1• Year 3 – lagged numbers
New school/
academy sixth forms
• Funded on estimates agreed by Project Lead• Subject to reconciliation• Estimates applied for variable period depending
on the age range of the school – until all year groups present
New Free Schools/
UTC/ Studio School
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Sub-contracting (1)
Sub contracted provision which involves students who live
outside the normal recruitment area of the institution will not
normally be funded.
Institutions need to make a case for funding of distance sub-
contracting.
EFA will consider cases by exception, taking account of:
• whether the provision complies with the principles of study
programmes as set out in Funding Regulations
• whether the whole or part of the programme is sub-contracted
and the extent to which the parent institution is involved in
delivery
• the location of delivery and the nature of travel to learn/travel to
work patterns in the locality
• the extent of student contact with the parent institution
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Sub-contracting (2)
• the extent to which the provision being made is already available
and accessible to students in the area where the sub-contractor
is delivering
• the extent to which a gap in provision has been identified by the
local authority or an employer
Cases will be moderated in the 2014/15 allocations process
through the standard business case process
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Yet to be finalised
• Funding of large programmes
• Application of Formula Protection Funding for 2014/15 and 2015/16
• Review of Programme cost weightings
• Funding rates for 2014/15
• 16-19 funding changes as a result of the Spending Review announcements
• Outcomes of the consultation on the methodology for discretionary bursary allocation
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Other online events
Filmed Presentations• Post-16 funding – coming soon• High Needs for academies – available now• High Needs for Local Authorities – available now Webinars• 4th November - High Needs for Local Authorities• 20th November - High Needs for academies• 25th November - Funding for Free Schools, University Technical
Colleges and Studio Schools