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Expenditure on school education 2003
02/12/2003
A new publication on local authority spending on
school education has been issued today by the Executive's
Education Department.
It also contains the latest information on
budgeted school running costs.
Expenditure and budgeted running costs
data are not comparable.
The main findings are :
Revenue expenditurein 2001-02 on
primary education was £1.1 billion, or
£2,700 per pupil. This was an increase per pupil of
nine per cent from 2000-01, or £223 per pupil.
Revenue expenditurein 2001-02 on
secondary education was £1.2 billion, or
£3,900 per pupil. This was an increase per pupil of nine
per cent from 2000-01, or £340 per pupil.
Revenue expenditurein 2001-02 on
special education was £270 million, or
£33,000 per pupil. This was an increase per pupil of 13 per
cent from 2000-01, or £3,781 per pupil.
Otherrevenue expenditure of about £650 million
resulted in a
total local authority education
expenditure in 2001-02 of £3.3 billion (see table 1). This
was an eight per cent increase from 2000-01.
Capital expenditurenot funded from revenue in 2001-02 on
primary and secondary schools was £133
million, or £181 per pupil. This was an increase per pupil
of 12 per cent from 2000-01, or £20 per pupil.
Capital expenditurenot funded from revenue in 2001-02 on
special schools was £2.3 million, or £280
per pupil. This was an increase per pupil of 17 per cent
from 2000-01, or £41 per pupil.
The element of budgeted expenditure included in
budgeted school running costs for primary
schools for 2003-04 was £1.1 billion or £2,600 per
pupil. This was an increase per pupil of nine per
cent from 2002-03, although figures are not directly
comparable.
The element of budgeted expenditure included in
budgeted school running costs for
secondary schools for 2003-04 was £1.2 billion or
£3,800 per pupil. This was an increase per pupil of
seven per cent from 2002-03, although figures are not
directly comparable.
This is total local authority gross expenditure,
irrespective of whether the income is from central
government grants, specific grants, sales, fees and
charges (e.g. school meals) and lottery grants. It
excludes loan charges payments.
There is an adjustment to the Scotland total to
account for inter-authority transfers i.e. the total spend
in Scotland is slightly less than the sum of the 32
councils gross spend as some give money to other councils
for the provision of services and
both show it as an expenditure item. This means
that theScotlandtotals shown match with the figures already published
in
Scottish Local Government Finance Statistics
2001-02 and avoids double counting. This has not been
apportioned to each of the spend categories, as it is
supplied as a single figure.
The totals include "revenue contributions to capital"
(RCC) and "support service costs" (SSC). These are
single items for the whole education budget which are
apportioned relative to operating costs to each of the
sub-services (primary, secondary, etc.).
RCCs are revenue funding used to contribute
to capital expenditure and SSCs are the costs of
administration support to the education department from the
councils central administration e.g. by providing office
space or payroll administration.
Budgeted School Running Costs
Sources.
Annual budgeted running cost information is provided
to The Scottish Executive by the education authorities, and
managers of grant-aided and self-governing schools. The
total budgeted running relates to the period1
st April 2003to31
st March 2004, and similarly for previous years.
School roll information is provided to The
Scottish Executive by schools each September as part of
the annual School Census.
Coverage.
This report does not provide information on costs in
special schools, independent schools or pre-school
establishments. The costs of schools with pre-school
classes or both primary and secondary departments
have been split into the appropriate sectors.
Definitions
The budget figures set out in this bulletin are
defined as follows:
Total budgeted school running cost for the year 1
April to 31 March is defined by the School Boards
(Financial Information) (Scotland) Regulations
1990. It includes:
Staff Costsincluding salary costs for permanent and temporary
teachers and instructors, school-based administrative and
support staff, janitors and manual grades and other costs
related to employment of staff.
Premises Costsincluding rent and rates, insurance, repairs and
maintenance, gas, electricity and other fuels, fixtures and
fittings and the cleaning of school premises.
Supplies Costsincluding books, materials and educational
equipment.
Transport Costsincluding leasing of vehicles for the school, repairs
and maintenance of vehicles and equipment and running
costs.
Examination Entry Fees.
School Board Related Costsincluding the cost of School Board administration,
training and other related expenditure.
Other School Running Costsincluding the cost of school hostels and
catering.
The overall cost figure is provided to each School
Board annually. It may not necessarily include all
the costs of running the school.
Other costs relating to the school may also
have been incurred during the period, for example, capital
spending or a proportion of total education authority
expenditure on services such as those provided by advisers
and psychologists.
These costs would not necessarily be
included in the school running cost total provided to the
School Board.
Part or all of PPP payment may also be
excluded.
Budgeted school running cost per pupil is obtained by
dividing the total budgeted school running costs by the
school roll. You should note that while the school
roll used for the calculation for this year's figures is
the roll as at September 2002, the budgeted school costs
actually relate to the period from
1 April 2003to31 March 2004. This period covers part of the 2002/2003
school session and part of the 2003/2004 school session.
The corresponding periods for school roll
and cost figures were used in previous years.
The national average is the average for local
authority, grant-aided and self-governing schools inScotland. National averages have been calculated
separately for the primary and secondary sectors.
It should also be noted, however, that over
the years, some authorities may have made changes to their
policy on which costs are allocated to school
level. Also, there may have been changes made to
the way specific costs are allocated to schools.
Difference between expenditure and budgeted
running costs
5.There are several reasons why the expenditure data
published in table 1 differs from the budgeted running
costs data published in table 8. The latter only
includes those elements of the primary and secondary
education rows of table 1 which are devolved to schools,
and this differs between authorities.
Examples of non-devolved costs for some
authorities would include
PPP projects
centrally employed supply teachers
classroom assistants
staff funded through specific
grants
revenue contributions to capital
expenditure
support service costs.
Public enquiries (non-media) about the above
information should be addressed to Mal Cooke,
Statistician, Scottish Executive Education
Department, Room 1-A, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6
6QQ.
Telephone 0131 244 1689
or e-mail
school.stats@scotland.gsi.gov.uk