Government spending on young people

The Department for Education has published statistics on the expenditure by local authorities and schools on education, children and young people’s services in 2013/14.

Key points include that:

• The total school expenditure on all local authority maintained schools is £30.6billion;
• The local authority spending on children and young people’s services in £8.9billion;
• 83 percent of the total schools spend is made up of the individual schools budget;
• The number of maintained schools is 18,708;
• The average balance across all local authority maintained schools is £117,000;
• 93 percent of maintained schools have a surplus revenue balance; and
• Local authorities spent £1.05billion on children’s centres, a reduction of £139.7million on the previous year.

For further information visit www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/386034/SR52_2014_Text.pdf.