The attached document is provided for your information:

This Management Information sheet may be found on ESINET at the following address:

The basic structure of the 2002-3 scheme remains as in the current year. The proposed scheme includes 60 separate grants. LEAs are requested to notify the DfES of take up by 8^th February 2002. Schools must be notified of their allocations by 28^th February 2002.

The scheme is proposing overall expenditure of £3.6 billion, an increase of £0.5m (16%) over the current year. If this increase is reflected across the board Norfolk’s allocation is likely to rise from £36,763,096 to £42,491,913. This in turn means that the LEA contribution is likely to rise to £12,196,000, an increase of £1.1m.

• New National Curriculum, PSHE and Citizenship: Funding for these activities is now included as part of Grant 101b: School Improvement: All Schools and EDP Priorities.
• National Professional Qualifications for Headteachers: Transferred to the National College for School Leadership.
• Leadership Programme for Serving Heads: Transferred to the National College for School Leadership. Funding for the LPSH follow up day (day 5, likely to occur after March 2002) is already available in this years Standards Fund grant.
• Supported Early Retirement Scheme for Headteachers: No new early retirements will be supported by the scheme.
• School Security: From 2002-2003 there will no separate specific grant for school security. Schools and LEAs will have the freedom, and are encouraged, to spend the funding made available through New Deal for Schools (NDS) capital funding, schools’ devolved formula capital and other capital funding programmes on security purposes.
• School Laboratories
• Class Size Capital
• Information Management Strategy

New grants in 2002-3:

• 513 Early professional development for teachers: funding for those LEAs already involved in the pilot scheme
• 514 Welcome back bonuses: funding to encourage teachers to return to the profession.
• 614 Capital Funding for nursery education in disadvantaged areas: funding to support the development of new or existing LEA nursery school provision in disadvantaged areas.

The main grant for devolvement to all schools, grant 101b: All Schools and EDP priorities, when adjusted to take account of its restructuring, is about the same as in 2001-2. However, because of the restructuring there will be a slight overall shift in funding towards primary schools and away from secondary schools.

The opportunity for schools to vire their funding to meet their own plans remains in place for most grants, however the number of grants where this is not allowed has been increased as follows:

• all grants in Category 6: Capital and Infrastructure;
• Grant 303: Ethnic Minority Achievement;
• Grant 315: School Achievement Awards;
• Grant 511: Recruitment and Retention Fund.

As in the current year, schools will have 4 terms in which to spend their allocations.

Alan Smith

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