{"value":{"id":797335,"askingMemberId":88,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2017-11-29T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2017-12-01T00:00:00","uin":"116298","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there is a formal mechanism by which educational organisations concerned about levels of funding can effectively communicate those concerns to the Department.","answeringBodyId":60,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Education","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":111,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2017-12-07T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Department maintains a formal process for individual institutions to share their school funding concerns.</p><p> </p><p>Academies are able to raise concerns with their regional Education and Skills Funding Agency contacts.</p><p> </p><p>Concerns about the finances of individual maintained schools should be raised with their maintaining local authority.</p><p> </p><p>If individual academies or maintained schools have concerns over the local distribution of the funding they should discuss this with their school forum.</p><p> </p><p>At a national level, officials convene regular meetings of the School and Academy Funding Group and its corresponding sub-groups, which have membership from a wide range of organisations representing schools and academies, local authorities, teachers and head teachers, to advise the Department on matters relating to all aspects of school and high needs funding.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Education: Finance","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/797335","method":"GET"}]}