Statistics on local authority and school spending on education, including academies and children and young people’s services.

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Local authority and school finance

Local-authority-maintained school and local authority spending on education, children and young people’s services and social care functions.

We will publish the 2018 to 2019 income and expenditure of local authority maintained schools data on the school financial benchmarking service in October. You can download datasets for all local authority maintained schools (and equivalent data for academies) from the data source section.

Academy spending

Planned local authority and school spending

Related school spending data

We no longer publish data in this format.

Published 24 September 2013
Last updated 21 January 2021 + show all updates

  1. Added ‘LA and school expenditure: 2019 to 2020 financial year’.

  2. Added LA and school expenditure: 2018 to 2019 financial year.

  3. Added ‘Planned LA and school expenditure: 2019 to 2020 financial year’ to the collection.

  4. Added information about publishing the maintained schools’ finance data on the schools financial benchmarking service.

  5. Added ‘LA and school expenditure: 2017 to 2018 financial year’.

  6. Added ‘Planned LA and school expenditure: 2018 to 2019 financial year’ to ‘Planned local authority and school spending’.

  7. Added ‘LA and school expenditure: 2016 to 2017 financial year’.

  8. Added ‘Planned LA and school expenditure: 2017 to 2018 financial year’.

  9. Added ‘Income and expenditure in academies in England: 2015 to 2016’ to ‘Academy spending’.

  10. Added ‘LA and school expenditure: 2015 to 2016 financial year’.

  11. Added ‘Planned LA and school expenditure: 2016 to 2017 financial year’.

  12. Added ‘Income and expenditure in academies in England: 2014 to 2015’ to ‘Academy spending’.

  13. Added ‘Schools, education and children’s services spending: 2014 to 2015’.

  14. Added ‘Planned expenditure by local authorities in England: 2015 to 2016’.

  15. Added ‘Income and expenditure in academies in England: 2013 to 2014’

  16. Updated page summary and added ‘Income and expenditure in academies in England: 2012 to 2013’ publication.

  17. Added ‘Planned expenditure on schools, education and children’s services’ to collection.

  18. Updated delayed ‘Income and expenditure in academies in England: 2012 to 2013’ SFR note to state new publish date.

  19. LA and school expenditure: financial year 2012 to 2013 added to collection.

  20. First published.

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