The Secretary of State for Education, Justine Greening, announced in July that the anticipated second stage of the school funding reform consultation would not be published until after Parliament’s summer recess, with decisions on the future for school funding published in early 2017.
As a result of the delay, any national funding reforms will not now be implemented until 2018-19. For 2017-18 no local authority will receive less funding than it did for schools and high-needs blocks in 2016-17. Schools will also continue to have funding “protected” by the minimum funding guarantee of -1.5%.