Following the recent decision to continue the Schools Mutual Fund into 2025-26, where we confirmed that the 2024-25 current premium and reimbursement rates will still […]
Education finance
The education finance blog was set up to enhance the communication of important information from the finance team to schools.
Monitoring & Reporting 93: Access Budget Questions
We are currently working with Access Education to ensure both the quality of the product and the user experience for Devon Schools. Part of this […]
Monitoring & Reporting 92: Access School Budget Plans 2025/26
The School Finance Team is working closely with colleagues at Access Education to to develop a quality platform for maintained schools to enter their budget […]
Administration 153: National Tutoring Programme closure – Final opportunity for schools to query 23/24 recovery amounts
Following the recoveries, all maintained schools have a final opportunity to query the amount recovered and provide data to the ESFA to request a refund. […]
Administration 152: Minimum content for a Management Partnership
If you are considering entering into a Management Partnership/SLA/school support arrangement where a maintained school is paying for support from another school, federation or Trust, […]
Monitoring & Reporting 92: Schools Financial Value Standard (SFVS) 2024 – 25
Time is rapidly ticking away and before we know it the end of the financial year will soon be upon us. Rather than leaving your […]
Administration 151: Mutual Fund Consultation Results
Further to Administration 149: Mutual Fund Closure Consultation – Support for schools and settings, the results of the Mutual fund consultation have shown overwhelming support […]
Administration 150: Devon Transfer/AnyComms Cash Adjustment Files
It has been identified that unfortunately, a batch of duplicate cash adjustment notifications have been sent to schools on the 15th January 2025 at 11:39:40 […]
Budget Preparation 45: 2025-26 Provisional School Budget Share Calculators – Now Available
To help schools with setting their budgets, we have now published provisional Model B and Model C School Budget Share Calculators for Financial Year 2025/26. […]
Monitoring & Reporting 91: FRS Monitoring Autumn Term – Deadline 20th Dec 2024 & Budget Plan deadline amendment 2025-2026
FRS Monitoring Autumn Term This is a reminder that the Autumn Term FRS Monitoring returns are due via AnyComms no later than Friday 20th December […]