{"id":35921,"date":"2026-03-09T14:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/?p=35921"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:11:52","slug":"closedown-2025-26-information-and-deadlines-for-maintained-and-academy-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/closedown-2025-26-information-and-deadlines-for-maintained-and-academy-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Closedown 2025\/26: Information and Deadlines for Maintained and Academy Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Schools are advised that the school closedown timetable has now been published on the Schools Finance website. While this document is primarily aimed at Devon maintained schools, some deadlines will be relevant to academy schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please find the timetable via the following link, under the heading of &#8216;Year End Guidance&#8217;: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/administration-and-finance\/finance\/budgets\/\">Budgets &#8211; Support for schools and settings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maintained schools will shortly receive the X-Back pre-populated form via AnyComms\/Devon Transfer. Please see updated guidance notes prior to completing the return, as the process will differ slightly from previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please find the guidance notes for completion of this task via the following link, under the heading of &#8216;X-Back Adjustments \u2013 AnyComms Pre-populated Form&#8217;: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/administration-and-finance\/finance\/budgets\/\">Budgets &#8211; Support for schools and settings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deadline for the schools X-Back Pay return this year will be 17th March 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools are advised that the school closedown timetable has now been published on the Schools Finance website. While this document is primarily aimed at Devon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","category-closedown-25-26-education-finance"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 01:00:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35947,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35921\/revisions\/35947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}