Redistribution and Financing Schools in England under Labour: Are Resources Going where Needs Are Greatest?

Autor/in	West, Anne
Titel	Redistribution and Financing Schools in England under Labour: Are Resources Going where Needs Are Greatest?
Quelle	In: Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 37 (2009) 2, S.158-179 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-1432
DOI	10.1177/1741143208100296
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Finance; Educational Policy; Resource Allocation; Student Needs; Special Needs Students; Disadvantaged; Budgets; School Districts; Funding Formulas; Politics of Education; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsfonds; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ressourcenallokation; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Finanzhaushalt; School district; Schulbezirk; Funding; Finanzierung; Educational policy
Abstract	This article explores the policy changes made by the Labour government to the recurrent funding of school-based education in England, focusing in particular on the allocation of resources to meet the needs of disadvantaged pupils. Expenditure on education and, in particular, on schools has increased since 1997. However, while there have been two major changes to the way in which government allocates resources to local authorities (LAs) and a new requirement for LAs to include a deprivation factor in their funding formulae for schools, the evidence indicates that resources are being allocated to schools in a less redistributive manner than they are being allocated by central government to LAs. To address this issue, the government could require a minimum proportion of funding to be allocated to schools on the basis of disadvantage; however, politically this would be problematic in the absence of additional resources as it would mean cuts being made by LAs elsewhere in the education budget. And whilst there is now some information about the level of funding allocated to meet the needs of disadvantaged pupils, there is a paucity of information about how these resources are actually used within schools. (Contains 18 notes, 5 tables, and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10