Education Budget DecisionsFebruary 2014

Council budget by department 2013/14

Council budget by department 2013/14Service Budget

Education £141.4m

Social Work £111.4m

Development and Housing £66.3m

Community Resources £53.8m

Finance and Corporate £34.1m

Leisure £14.3m

Chief Executive’s £2.7m

Total £424.0m

Education Budget 2013/14

Gross expenditure budget £174m

Deduct:

Central budgets (£21m)

Capital charges (£11m)

Available budget £142m

Breakdown of budget by division

Another way of looking at it

Staffing Costs - teachers

Staff group Costs

Secondary Teachers £37.3m

Primary Teachers £33.7m

ASN School Teachers £4.0m

ASL Teachers £1.2m

Pre-5 Teachers £1.0m

Other £0.6m

Total £77.8m

Staffing Costs – non-teachersStaff Group Costs

Pre-5 £7.7m

Primary £1.8m

Secondary £2.2m

ASL £3.6m

HQ Administration £1.2m

Community Learning and Development £1.4m

Additional Support Needs (School) £1.4m

Healthy Lifestyles and Psychological £1.3m

Total £20.6m

Teachers – Key facts

Element Costs

Average Salary £40,713

Supply teacher £116 per day

Teachers’ working days - annual 195 days

Class contact time – weekly 22.5 hours

Devolved Management of Resources

The main areas devolved to schools are:• Staffing budgets• Supply cover• Travel costs• Staff development• Utilities• Equipment and materials• Consortium transport• Printing, stationery, postage, telephone

DMR – Example 1

• Summary of a secondary school budget

Element Budget

Staffing £2.992m

Property (excluding repairs) £0.320m

Payments To Suppliers £0.057m

Payments To Other Bodies £0.081m

Admin £0.007m

Transport £0.007m

Total £3.464m

Breakdown of secondary school budget

DMR – Example 2

• Summary of a primary school budget

Element Budget

Staffing £0.654m

Property (excluding repairs) £0.066m

Payments To Suppliers £0.015m

Admin £0.003m

Payments To Other Bodies £0.001m

Total £0.739m

Breakdown of primary school budget

Council decisions ...

• £10 credit union account for every S1 pupil from August 2014

• Additional £2.5m to school estate (total of £53m)

• Freeze on charges

Education Budget ...

Item Value

Reduce devolved CPD budget to schools

£100,000

Reduce current fruit for schools provision

£90,000

Reduce devolved absence cover budget by 10%

£74,000

Reduce scope of P6 swimming programme from 8 to 4 sessions

£30,000

Questions …