Church and faith schools represent a third of all state-funded schools. The department values the contribution that they make to a diverse school system.<\/p>
Faith schools have played a longstanding and important role in our education system. Faith schools are popular with parents, with many being high-performing and are more likely to be rated good or outstanding by Ofsted than non-faith schools. New academies and free schools that have a faith designation must allow for a minimum of 50% of places to be allocated to children without reference to faith where the school is oversubscribed.<\/p>
In 2018, the department published \u2018Secondary school choice and selection: insights from new national preferences data\u2019. The report found evidence that the smaller proportion of disadvantaged and minority ethnic pupils attending church schools compared to other schools was a result of a range of factors, including admissions oversubscription criteria, as well as parental preference.<\/p>
The department expects all schools, including faith schools, to be open and inclusive. All schools, including faith schools, must ensure that their admission arrangements are fair and objective, and that the arrangements will not disadvantage unfairly a child from a particular social or racial group.<\/p>
Many faith schools are oversubscribed, showing that parents value and want these schools. The department also understands that the ability to prioritise children of faith when oversubscribed is important to faith schools and we do not intend to change that.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4091", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Robin Walker"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Worcester"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Robin Walker"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2022-06-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : {"_value" : "18970"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2022-06-24T13:18:26.523Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2022-06-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Faith Schools: Admissions"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he had made an assessment of the potential impact of religious selection on socioeconomic inclusion in schools.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4602", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Wera Hobhouse"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bath"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Wera Hobhouse"} ], "uin" : "18969"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1470807", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1470807/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Church and faith schools represent a third of all state-funded schools. The department values the contribution that they make to a diverse school system.<\/p>
Faith schools have played a longstanding and important role in our education system. Faith schools are popular with parents, with many being high-performing and are more likely to be rated good or outstanding by Ofsted than non-faith schools. New academies and free schools that have a faith designation must allow for a minimum of 50% of places to be allocated to children without reference to faith where the school is oversubscribed.<\/p>
In 2018, the department published \u2018Secondary school choice and selection: insights from new national preferences data\u2019. The report found evidence that the smaller proportion of disadvantaged and minority ethnic pupils attending church schools compared to other schools was a result of a range of factors, including admissions oversubscription criteria, as well as parental preference.<\/p>
The department expects all schools, including faith schools, to be open and inclusive. All schools, including faith schools, must ensure that their admission arrangements are fair and objective, and that the arrangements will not disadvantage unfairly a child from a particular social or racial group.<\/p>
Many faith schools are oversubscribed, showing that parents value and want these schools. The department also understands that the ability to prioritise children of faith when oversubscribed is important to faith schools and we do not intend to change that.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4091", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Robin Walker"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Worcester"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Robin Walker"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2022-06-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : {"_value" : "18969"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2022-06-24T13:18:26.57Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2022-06-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Faith Schools: Admissions"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to reduce the number of school places offered on a faith basis.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4602", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Wera Hobhouse"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bath"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Wera Hobhouse"} ], "uin" : "18970"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1435221", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1435221/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The published dedicated schools grant allocation tables contain details of early years entitlement funding distributed to local authorities. This is summarised in the attached table. The table shows final allocations, except for the financial year 2021/22 which shows initial allocations:<\/p>
Time period (financial year)<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Early years block in the DSG (£ million)<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2015-16<\/p><\/td> 2,735<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2016-17<\/p><\/td> 2,701<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2017-18<\/p><\/td> 3,277<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2018-19<\/p><\/td> 3,578<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2019-20<\/p><\/td> 3,618<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2020-21<\/p><\/td> 3,627<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2021-22<\/p><\/td> 3,550<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> Most of the funding that the department provides for the provision of education, both for schools and high needs provision, is allocated to local authorities in the first instance. Local authorities are allocated most of their funding for schools and high needs through the dedicated schools grant (DSG).<\/p> Funding for academies is paid directly to trusts by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. However, local authorities set the local formulae that determine academies\u2019 allocations. Local authorities\u2019 DSG allocations take account of the funding made available for all schools in their local areas. There are also other grants which the department pays to local authorities in the first instance. The department then asks local authorities to pass those on to the maintained schools in their area. This includes, for example, the pupil premium grant. The pupil premium helps schools improve the academic attainment and wider outcomes of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, and total pupil premium funding will increase to over £2.6 billion in financial year 2022/23, from £2.5 billion this year.<\/p> The table shows funding since the 2015/16 financial year for the education of 5 to 16-year-olds in England, in all state-funded schools. This is based on the annual release of the school funding statistics, which can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics<\/a>.<\/p> The published statistics include the schools block, central school services block and most of the high needs block of the DSG, pupil premium grant funding, the supplementary free school meals grant, the early career framework grant, and the teachers\u2019 pay grant and teachers\u2019 pension employer contribution grant (which have been rolled into the DSG from 2021/22). The coverage has been chosen both to capture core funding for schools and to ensure the series is as comparable over time as possible, despite changes to the specific grants allocated to schools and local authorities over the years shown.<\/p> The figures do not include any funding allocated to support with the response to the COVID-19 outbreak, because the inclusion of this time-limited funding to support schools would cause inconsistencies in the time series. Since June 2020, we have announced nearly £5 billion of investment for education recovery to support children and young people to catch up on missed education, and more information can be found in the annex to the school funding statistics publication above.<\/p> Figures in the funding time series are rounded to the nearest £100 million.<\/p> Time period (financial year)<\/strong><\/p><\/td> School funding (£ million) <\/strong><\/p><\/td> School funding plus post-16 high needs funding (£ million)<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2015-16<\/p><\/td> 39,600<\/p><\/td> 40,100<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2016-17<\/p><\/td> 40,200<\/p><\/td> 40,700<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2017-18<\/p><\/td> 40,900<\/p><\/td> 41,500<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2018-19<\/p><\/td> 42,500<\/p><\/td> 43,100<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2019-20<\/p><\/td> 44,400<\/p><\/td> 45,100<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2020-21<\/p><\/td> 47,600<\/p><\/td> 48,300<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2021-22<\/p><\/td> 49,600<\/p><\/td> 50,300<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> The table below provides the amount of 16-19 funding that has been allocated to local authorities in England. This excludes post-16 high needs but includes funding that goes directly to local authorities, and the funding they receive for school sixth forms, as set out in the published 16 to 19 allocations data. This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/16-to-19-allocation-data-2021-to-2022-academic-year<\/a>.<\/p> Time period (academic year)<\/p><\/td> Total 16-19 programme funding allocated to local authorities (£ million)<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2015/16<\/p><\/td> 589<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2016/17<\/p><\/td> 525<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2017/18<\/p><\/td> 468<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2018/19<\/p><\/td> 407<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2019/20<\/p><\/td> 369<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2020/21<\/p><\/td> 398<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2021/22<\/p><\/td> 411<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> |