Children and Families – Financial
Overview
Budget & Finance Overview & Scrutiny
Committee
13th September 2011
1.
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES (C&F): FUNDING SOURCES
Total Gross C&F Budget - 2011/12 (£m)
Total = £294.37m
Schools
Budget –
Central
Element,
£21.10m
Achievement &
Inclusion –
General Fund
£10.40m
Social Care –
General Fund,
£47.43m
Schools
Budget - ISB,
£215.44m
2.
SCHOOLS BUDGET - ISSUES
• Schools Budget has to be set each year in March based on
estimated DSG as DSG is not confirmed until June/July
• 2011/12 DSG had a brought-forward deficit of £5.7m due to SEN
pressures
• Major DfE consultation ongoing at the moment looking at radically
changing Schools Funding:
• possibility of a national funding formula now dropped
• radical changes in funding methodology inevitably leads to
winners and losers
• 2011/12 Settlement for Schools was “Cash-Flat” i.e. Schools in
general received the same cash as 2010/11 - i.e. a real terms cut
3.
SCHOOLS BUDGET - 2011/12
Dedicated Schools Grant (£238m)
Schools Budget (£236.5m)
Individual Schools Budget
(£215.4m)
Formula
Distribution:
Pupil Nos,
Floor Area,
SEN,
Deprivation
etc
School A
School B
School C
Central Element of Schools
Budget (£21.1m):
• SEN (£9.9m)
• PRUs (£5.6m)
• Early Years (£4.5m)
• Admissions (£0.3m)
• FSM, Licences etc
(£0.5m)
• Teachers maternity,
redundancy (£0.3m)
4.
2011/12 BUDGET – (GENERAL FUND ONLY)
Achievement and Inclusion
£10.397m
Youth & Connexions,
£3,155,023
Alternative
Education, £1,021,676
Services to Schools,
£2,250,875
Education Welfare
Service, £423,681
SEN , £3,545,607
5.
2011/12 BUDGET (GENERAL FUND ONLY)
Social Care
Children with
Disabilities,
£3,265,646
£47.44m
Early Years Incl
Childrens Centres,
£9,114,317
Youth Offending
Team, £1,053,743
Purchasing/
Placements,
£23,327,130
Care Planning and
CIN, £10,674,860
6.
BUDGET PRESSURES
2010/11 Overspends
Social Care Placements
Social Care Legal Fees
Children with Disabilities
School Expansion costs
£k
1,466
736
300
398
2,900
LESS: In-Year Savings
-2,524
Outturn
376 (overspend)
7.
2011/12 SAVINGS
Children and Families Budget Reductions for 2011/12
£000
2011/12 Base Budget + Grants to be ceased
LESS:
Departmental Savings
One council Savings etc
Loss of Grants
ADD growth (Social Care+CWD)
Net Savings
2011/12 Final Budget
10,372
1,569
2,049
£000
69,721
13,990
55,731
20.1%
2,100
11,890
57,831
17.1%
8.
2011/12 SAVINGS
Unit
Item
£'000
Schools Traded
Services and charging
to the schools budget
Over the last three years C&F have reviewed charges to the schools budget rather than the general fund
achieving £2.5m additional charges. Recent reviews have indicated that a further £1m can be charged
mainly covering 3 children centres £860k. Further savings are still being reviewed for future years.
1,000
Children's Centres
Restructuring of the children centre teams £550k and a review of centrally commissioned services £450k.
A further £700k from Sure Start central expenditure and £255k from the development of a child based
funding formula for ongoing allocations to centres. In addition a further £190k from not starting the
Sudbury, Cricklewood and Kingsbury centre and £105k from various schools taking responsibility for all
maintenance and revenue costs of buildings.
2,250
Social Care
Transformation
A number of areas have been identified for reducing costs foster placements, children in residential
homes, semi independent living, payments for children that have been adopted and other arrangements
as well as families with recourse to public funds and the Youth Offending Service.
1,800
Children's Social Care
Restructuring
Rationalisation of the fostering and adoption service including their panels. Income will be generated
through the sale of approved adopters. A rationalisation of the safeguarding service t In addition there
will be a reduction to commitments against the care matters grant with a cessation of the support to the
Young Carers Centre, reductions in the Youth Offending Service and limited reductions in the Crisis
Intervention Service and in unqualified staff in the localities social work teams.
1,300
Children with
Disabilities and SEN
Restructuring of short break provision (£190k), cease Easter holiday play schemes (£20k), implementation
of new continuing care framework awarding additional financial responsibility on health services(£50k),
reduction in SEN early years support (£63k). Decrease in core staffing for the Education Psychology
Service and increased charging of non statutory services (£108k).
431
School Improvement
Service
Increase in charges for the Music Service (£50k) and £483k from reduction of consultancy support and
post deletions within the School Improvement Service.
533
Youth & Connexions
Restructuring and reduced service offering for the Youth Service including staff loses of £153k). For
Connexions staff savings of £34k with £80k reduction to PA delivery contracts and reduced careers
guidance contract (£200k).
546
Various
Ceasing a number of ABG funded activities that ceased or become un-ringfenced, e.g. extended schools,
YOF, PAYP, Early Years Workforce, School Travel Advisers, Choice Advisers, Children’s Fund
TOTAL
2,512
10,372
9.
2011/12 Forecast Outturn
Schools Budget
2011/12 Forecast Overspend
£000
SEN
1,500
General Fund
2011/12 Forecast Overspend
£000
Social Care Legal Fees
130
Social care Placements
230
Total
360
10.
SEN Pressures
10.
SEN Pressures
11.
Measures to Reduce SEN Spend
Past actions aimed at reducing the number of statutory assessments and statements:
•
•
Individual Pupil Support Agreements (IPSA) - lower level needs, an alternative to
statementing, September 2010.
new mainstream banding descriptors + increase in the threshold for which new
statements/IPSA’s will be provided, April 2011.
Will reduce spend in the medium/long term but not in the short term.
Current Actions - SEN Project Phase 1 (April 2011 to July 2011)
•
Expand local specialist provision to meet immediate demand and reduce out-Borough costs :
+41 places - Village School/Queens Park Community, Granville nursery and Alperton Community
School - October 2011-Sept 2012
•
proposal to redesignate Vernon House Special School to accommodate children on the autistic
spectrum
•
Develop single SEN database, improve management information and data to inform future planning
•
Develop strategy on commissioning and monitoring of out-borough places – data analysis completed
and priorities identified for joint work with West London Alliance
11.
Measures to Reduce SEN Spend
Planned Actions - SEN Project Phase 2 (August 2011 – August 2012)
•
Review and re-launch of SEN and Inclusion Strategy
•
Undertake end to end review, develop and embed new ways of working)
(August 2011 – August 2012)
•
Continue to develop in-Borough specialist provision reducing reliance on outBorough provision.
•
Put in place new commissioning processes in collaboration with the West
London Alliance.
•
Implement re-structure of SEN and Inclusion Services to better align service
to support the SEN Strategy.
12. CHILDREN’S SOCIAL CARE PRESSURES
•
Over recent years pressure from increasing LAC numbers has been the main
cause of overspends in Children and Families.
•
This pressure has been widespread across most local authorities and through
the Social Care Transformation Programme, Children and Families have
maintained LAC numbers well below that of statistical neighbours
•
Over last 2 years referrals have gone up by 25% and number of children
with a child protection plan has increased by 50%
•
Expenditure on expensive placements such as residential and IFAs has
steadily been reducing as illustrated in the following graphs:
12. CHILDREN’S SOCIAL CARE PRESSURES
13. Measures to Reduce Children’s Social Care Pressures
WORKSTREAMS
Residential Placements-to reduce unit costs of residential units through cost and volume
and advance payments reductions
Semi-independent accommodation-To reduce costs by increasing Brent shared houses
from 6 to 12 units.
Fostering-To reduce overall costs by increasing the number of in-house foster carers (45
more by 2014) and reducing the reliance on expensive independent providers
No recourse to public funds-To reduce the number of families with no recourse to funds
that are supported by the department
Post looked after children resources-To reduce the money paid out in support to families
who are caring for children who are no longer “looked after”
Crisis Intervention and Support team- To review the work of the team to ensure a
renewed focus on preventing children becoming looked after.
14. School Places Pressures
Currently insufficient capacity in Brent primary schools resulting in 388 pupils without
a school place as at July 2011.
Latest GLA projections: upward trend in the demand for primary places is expected
to continue beyond 2014-15. Potentially creating a requirement for 4,224 reception
places by 2020 leading to a shortage of 692 reception places (or 23 new forms of
entry) over the entire period.
Creating significant Capital and Revenue Financial Pressure
Summary of Forecast Deficit of Primary School Places 2011-12 to 2014-15
Year
Deficit No. of Reception
Classes
Form of Entry based on
Demand for Reception
Classes
Total No. of R-Y6 classes
Required
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
-2
2
14
-12
12
84
-14
14
98
-15
15
105