Section 52 Outturn Statements

We are required under section 52 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to prepare an outturn statement after the end of each financial year. Section 52 gives the Secretary of State power to make regulations prescribing the form of these statements, their content, timing and manner of the publication.

Regulatory provisions directly affecting the content of section 52 outturn statements are also made in the LEA Budget, Schools Budget and Individual Schools Budget (England) Regulations 2003, Financing of Maintained Schools (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2003.

Purpose of outturn statements

The statement is intended to

• Provide schools, parents and others with an interest in education with details about schools and the boroughs funding and expenditure
• Provide data for the Departmental Annual Report (DAR)
• Inform policy making
• Inform the Treasury for monitoring purposes
• Inform Parliament in its role of monitoring the department’s accountability for public funds. MPs ask about school and the boroughs expenditure via the mechanisms of parliamentary questions or through the Education Select Committee

It is important that school forums and others have finance data available to them to inform debate about differing levels of expenditure between local authorities and between schools. It is therefore essential that all statements are prepared to a common format.

Publication and submission of outturn statements

A copy of the outturn statement must be made available to the following

• We must provide a hard copy of each outturn statement to the governing body and headteacher of each school maintained by them if they do not have access to the internet
• We must make a copy of the whole statement available for inspection by parents and others in the community at all reasonable times and free of charge
• We must make a copy of the whole statement available online which is maintained and accessible by the public. Each school must however be provided with hard copies if they do not have access to the internet

The financial monitoring team’s website is updated regularly and contains the most up to date detailed section 52 data reports from all boroughs.

Visit the Department for Children, Schools and Families for further information.

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Section 52 Outturn Statement 2005/06

• Table A  (pdf 36kb)
  The first part of this table is the spending by schools' section and is explained further in table B.
  The second part shows the spending by Southwark within the schools budget excluding delegated or devolved funding
  The third part is the section for our departments central functions. It is split to show central administration and support and access sub-totals
  The fourth part is the youth and community element of the table
• The youth service annex (pdf 11kb)
  This relates to expenditure on our youth service. The annex provides a further break down of expenditure shown at line 87 of table A
• Table B (pdf 31kb)
  This is school level information. It provides a summary of individual schools' expenditure in respect of the 2005/06 financial year

Section 52 Outturn Statement 2006/07

• Table A (pdf 44kb)
  The first part of this table is the spending by schools' section and is explained further in table B
  The second part shows the spending by Southwark within the schools budget excluding delegated or devolved funding
  The third part is the section for our departments central functions. It is split to show central administration and support and access sub-totals
  The fourth part is the youth and community element of the table
• The youth service annex (pdf 32kb)
  This relates to expenditure on our youth service. The annex provides a further break down of expenditure shown at line 95 of table A
  Table B (pdf 16kb)
• This is school level information. It provides a summary of individual schools' expenditure in respect of the 2006/07 financial year

Contact

Education finance team
Tel: 020 7525 5050
educationfinance@southwark.gov.uk
Children's Services
John Smith House
144-152 Walworth Road
London
SE17 1JL