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<p>Each year the Department publishes an assessment of schools’ costs and funding,
which looks at mainstream schools in England at the national level. The Department
recognises that this assessment will not reflect the position of each individual school,
and that different schools will face different financial challenges, including schools
in the Local Authorities represented by the f40.</p><p>The purpose of the schools
national funding formula (NFF), which allocates the great majority of school funding
in England, is not to give every school the same level of per pupil funding. It is
right that schools with more pupils with additional needs – such as those indicated
by measures of deprivation, low prior attainment, or English as an additional language
– receive extra funding to help them meet the needs of all their pupils.</p><p>Schools
have autonomy and the responsibility to manage their budgets. The Department does
not hold real time data on individual schools’ costs and spending decisions. It would
not be right to base schools’ funding on the spending decisions of individual schools;
schools’ funding is, rather, based on objective measures of comparative need.</p>
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