This is all the money available to a council's schools budget in a year added together: the government grant, any top-ups or adjustments, whatever was carried over from last year, and anything the council added from its own funds. It matters as the fullest picture of the resources the council had to work with. A higher number simply means a bigger overall pot; comparing it with what was actually spent shows whether the council lived within its means.
| name | dsg_total_funding |
|---|---|
| dataset | 05-dsg-send-deficits |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | GBP |
| grain | local authority x financial year |
| role | feature |
| source | data/data/s251_alleducation_la_regional_national.csv (cp1252); geographic_level == 'Local authority'; category_of_expenditure == '1.9.6 Total funding supporting the Schools Budget'; column gross_expenditure |
| period | 2015-16 to 2024-25 |
| missingness | 'x' = not applicable, 'z' = suppressed — never treat as zero |
| score_note | Raw aggregate funding line; redundant with grant + adjustments + balances and carries no efficiency signal. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Total funding supporting the Schools Budget: grant, adjustments, brought-forward balance and any LA contribution combined. Useful as an alternative, broader scale measure than dsg_grant_year.