Bryan Slater Director of Education	Distribution
	Headteacher and Chair of Governors All Norfolk Schools

This document needs your action as detailed below:

ACTION	Title	Transitional Support Grant – Release of Funds
	Summary of contents	Letter Schedule for the distribution of £1.5 million LEA headroom money originally earmarked to supplement the DfES Transitional Support Grant
	Associated documents	Transitional Support Plan to Support Schools in Financial Difficulty 2004-2006
	Date	21 May 2004
	Summary of action required	Schools to incorporate their allocation of the headroom funding into the budget plan
	To be completed by	Date of next revision to the budget plan
	LEA Contact	Kim Robertson	(	(01603) 224272
	E-mail address	kim.robertson@norfolk.gov.uk
	Norfolk Self Review reference	7. How well is the school led and managed? 8. How well does the school use its resources?
	Document reference	MI 113-04

Your ref:		Please ask for:	Paul Fisher
My ref:	PF/MAS PF/5704	Contact Number:	01603 223464
Date:	20 May 2004	Email:	paul.fisher@norfolk.gov.uk

Headteacher and Chair of Governors

All Norfolk Schools

Dear Colleagues

TRANSITIONAL SUPPORT GRANT – RELEASE OF FUNDS

As you will be aware the LEA has been allocated Transitional Support Grant which in line with our approved Plan is being allocated to schools in financial difficulty.

Last week I agreed a set of recommendations to release funds to 64 schools and I will be writing to these schools individually to inform them of their allocation by 1 June, 2004. A second group of schools have been asked to provide additional information and explanations. Once this has been received the applications for this group of schools will be considered. Each of these have already been contacted separately.

Full details of all allocations will be available to all schools by the end of the Summer Term.

As a result of the considerations last week I feel confident in releasing back into schools the £1.5 million ‘headroom’ money that was held back this year to supplement the DfES grant.

In accordance with the approved Plan I therefore intend to distribute this £1.5 million into schools’ 2004/05 budgets at a rate of £13.71 per pupil/place.

The attached schedule shows how much each school will receive based on this criterion. The total fte for pupils/places is that used for allocating school budget shares at 28 February 2004. The funding will be allocated to schools via the revised budget share to be issued at the end of the Summer Term, and there will be no adjustment to this allocation as a result of the Autumn Term reconciliation process.

I hope you will accept that this was the earliest time these funds could have been released and I felt it was better to release the funds now rather than leave it until the end of the financial year.

Yours sincerely

Director of Education