Official Statistics

LA and school expenditure: 2023 to 2024 financial year

How schools and local authorities spent their funding on education, children's services and social care in the financial year 2023 to 2024.

Applies to England

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A summary of data from the consistent financial reporting and S251 outturn surveys covering:

  • local authority spending on education services and children鈥檚 and young people鈥檚 services
  • the income and expenditure of local authority-maintained schools in England
  • the latest position on school revenue balances

We will also publish the income and expenditure of local-authority-maintained schools data on the聽school financial benchmarking service聽at the end of the year. You can download datasets for all local-authority-maintained schools (and equivalent data for academies) from the data source section.

Workforce and finance statistics team

Updates to this page

Published 12 December 2024

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