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<p>Overall, core schools funding is increasing by £4 billion in the 2022/23 financial
year, a 7% increase in cash terms per pupil from the 2021/22 financial year. This
includes an increase in mainstream school funding for 5 to 16 year olds of £2.5 billion,
which is equivalent to an average 5.8% cash increase, or an average of £300 per pupil.</p><p>Through
the English as an additional language (EAL) factor in the national funding formula
(NFF), schools attract funding for pupils who are classed as having EAL and who have
started in the state-funded education system in England within the last three years.
This equates to an additional £565 per primary school pupil and £1,530 per secondary
school pupil in the 2022/23 financial year, meaning the NFF will distribute a total
of £410 million through the EAL factor.</p><p>At present, the NFF is used to determine
how much funding is provided to each local authority in England, and it is for each
local authority, to set a local formula to distribute it between schools. Individual
authorities can decide whether to include an EAL factor in their local formulae, and
where they do, how much that factor should distribute. The government has made clear
its intention to move to a ‘direct NFF’, which will determine schools’ budgets directly
rather than through local formulae. This includes requiring all local authorities
to use the NFF methodology of EAL3, meaning that all pupils with EAL that have entered
the school system during the last three years will attract this funding. This will
ensure that all schools in England will be guaranteed to receive funding in respect
of their pupils with EAL.</p>
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