Guidance to Education and Library Boards

Each Funding Authority is required to set out the conditions under which the Board of Governors of a school is given delegated authority and its delegated budget.

This document, 'Guidance on Financial and Management Arrangements for Controlled & Maintained Schools', sets out central guidance which each Education and Library Board (ELB) should follow in setting out the conditions to apply to relevant schools served by the Common Funding Formula. Each Board is free to devise its own arrangements, taking account of the requirements and obligations set out in its financial memorandum and the Common Funding Scheme.

Voluntary Grammar Schools and Grant-Maintained Integrated Schools have direct control of their finances and thus the conditions applied to those schools are subject to separate arrangements.