The Department is in the process of reviewing school funding. The current review started in January 2008 and will end in 2011.
In the course of this review we are referring our partners and stakeholders to the EFSG papers on this site. They provide the background to the current school funding system and details of the research that supplied the evidence for decisions that were taken at the time.
The EFSG (Education Funding Strategy Group) met in 2001and 2002. It was made up of representatives from central and local government, the unions representing teaching and support staff, schools and governors' organisations and the churches.
The Group was responsible for overseeing the development of a new school and LEA funding system based on greater transparency, in line with the Government's proposals set out in the Local Government Green Paper Modernising local government finance, published in September 2000.
The purpose of this site is to provide access to the historical papers and deliberations of the Group and the explanatory material covering the funding system.
