Scottish Local Government Finance 'Green Book' 2022-23

Scottish Local Government Finance Settlement 2022-23: Funding Allocation Formula.


Education Deprivation

Settlement: 2022-23

Quantum: 59,005

Category: GAE

Note 1: Primary School Free Meal Registration: this is the number of P5-P7 pupils in the top 10% of schools ranked by the percent of pupils registered for free school meals, expressed for each authority as a percentage of all Scottish P5-P7 pupils in the top 10% (averaged over three years).

Note 2: Secondary Registered for Free School Meals: the same approach is applied except that pupils in schools ranking in the top 5% attract a weighting of 4, between 5% and 10% attract a weighting of 3 and between 10% and 20% attract a weight of 1.

Note 3: Source: Scottish Government Pupil Census 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Note 4: Primary and Secondary allocation shares of total are kept the same as in previous settlement years.

indicators Primary Schools - Weighted Free Meal Registration Rates Effect 1 (£000s) Secondary Schools - Weighted Free Meal Registration Rates Effect 2 (£000s) Share GAE (£000s)
Aberdeen City 2% 595 2% 712 2% 1,307
Aberdeenshire 0% 9 0% 0 0% 9
Angus 1% 171 0% 37 0% 209
Argyll & Bute 0% 76 0% 0 0% 76
City of Edinburgh 3% 715 3% 903 3% 1,618
Clackmannanshire 1% 224 0% 81 1% 306
Dumfries & Galloway 2% 438 1% 335 1% 773
Dundee City 9% 2,609 10% 3,048 10% 5,657
East Ayrshire 3% 741 1% 316 2% 1,057
East Dunbartonshire 0% 115 0% 0 0% 115
East Lothian 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0
East Renfrewshire 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0
Falkirk 1% 331 1% 168 1% 499
Fife 10% 2,819 4% 1,319 7% 4,137
Glasgow City 37% 10,581 60% 18,413 49% 28,994
Highland 2% 522 1% 323 1% 844
Inverclyde 4% 1,230 5% 1,642 5% 2,872
Midlothian 0% 36 0% 0 0% 36
Moray 0% 21 0% 0 0% 21
Na h-Eileanan Siar 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0
North Ayrshire 3% 901 3% 898 3% 1,800
North Lanarkshire 3% 773 1% 244 2% 1,017
Orkney Islands 0% 13 0% 8 0% 21
Perth & Kinross 0% 50 0% 0 0% 50
Renfrewshire 3% 966 2% 569 3% 1,535
Scottish Borders 1% 210 0% 0 0% 210
Shetland Islands 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0
South Ayrshire 2% 528 1% 197 1% 725
South Lanarkshire 6% 1,848 1% 451 4% 2,299
Stirling 0% 67 0% 0 0% 67
West Dunbartonshire 3% 933 2% 694 3% 1,626
West Lothian 3% 957 1% 168 2% 1,125
Total 100% 28,481 100% 30,524 100% 59,005
weights 48.3% 51.7%

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