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4 meetings

23 Feb 2026

2:00 pm

Leicestershire Schools' Forum - Monday, 23 February 2026 2.00 pm

The Leicestershire Schools' Forum meeting scheduled for Monday 23 February 2026 was set to discuss the 2026-27 school budget, including the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) settlement and the proposed allocation of funds across various blocks. A key item on th...

06 Nov 2025

Leicestershire Schools' Forum - Thursday, 6 November 2025 2.00 pm

The Leicestershire Schools' Forum met on 6 November 2025 to discuss the extension of the Special Educational Needs (SEN) Investment Fund, and an exceptional premises factor disapplication request. The forum was also scheduled to receive a verbal update on t...

09 Sep 2025

Leicestershire Schools' Forum - Tuesday, 9 September 2025 2.00 pm

The Leicestershire Schools' Forum met on Tuesday, 9th September 2025, to discuss school deficit policies, funding transfers, and support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The forum was also scheduled to review the minutes ...

About

Schools Forums were established under the Education Act 2002 to formally give schools a voice in the disbursement of funding for schools.  Whilst subsequent legislation has changed the role of the Forum since this time, specifically the introduction of the National Funding Formula, Members of the Forum continue to represent the views of Headteachers and Governors across all school phases and school type.  The Forum has some decision-making powers but also a significant consultative role in all aspects of the Schools Budget, including the budgets distributed to Schools and also the centrally retained schools budget which funds services such as student support, special educational needs and early learning and childcare and are increasingly seem by the Department of Education as the local voice of schools.

All members of the Forum serve to represent the groups that either elect or nominate them, they are a strategic group and can commission work or establish working groups to consider issues in more detail.

Further information on the Schools Forum and pre-December 2012 meetings can be found here.

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