Supplementary memorandum submitted by
Lesley Adams, Head of Integrated Services for Children and Families,
Birmingham City Council
I can only confirm what our proposed arrangements
for the deprivation supplement are. Our local consultation on
this and the rest of the single formula finished last Friday.
We will collate the results of that and report them to our Schools
Forum in February but I am not sure that we will make any decisions
at that point now that we have a delay to the overall implementation.
Our proposal is to target all pupils identified
by IMD from either the top 5% most disadvantaged areas (nationally)
or the top 10% or a weighted mixture of the two, and allocate
extra funding.
If we target just the top 5% that will be about
6,557 children and they would attract another 61p per hour on
top of the unit rate. If we target the top 10% (9,233) that would
be 44p per hour on top. I cannot say what the result would be
if we use a weighted mixture but it would obviously lie somewhere
between these two sums.
We currently use a mixture of these two in our
main school funding formula.
Over 70% of our under fives live in the 30%
top most disadvantaged areas nationally and we have about 14,000
children in each year group. So our proposal will only target
the absolutely most disadvantaged. Context might be important.
Other authorities may well be targeting a much wider group than
we are suggesting and offering a smaller sum.
December 2009
| 
