Schools Capital Allocations for 2011-12

13 December 2010

The Secretary of State for Education has now announced details of capital funding to schools and local authorities for 2011-12. The allocation of over £2bn includes:

£800m of basic need funding to local authorities to provide school places where needed in their area, in all categories of taxpayer funded schools;
£858m of maintenance capital to local authorities to support the needs of the schools that they maintain and for the Sure Start Children’s Centres in their area;
£196m of Locally Coordinated VA Programme capital to support the maintenance capital needs of voluntary aided schools;
£185m of Devolved Formula Capital for schools.

Information and a full schedule of these allocations at local authority level is available on the DfE website.

Further details on the capital allocations by local authority for 2011-12 is also available on the DfE site.

Details of the allocations of basic need and maintenance funding to each authority, and indicative amounts of the capital allocations for their schools were sent to local authorities on 13 December.

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