How we spend our budget

We are committed to ensuring the Islands receive value for money from the investment in education through careful financial management.

The Department's authorised budget for 2011 was £76.3M. Our authorised budget for 2012 is £75.75M

• Our spending has been within budget for the last 20 years.
• Standards remain high and demand in certain areas such as Post 16 and special needs education has increased.
• The proportion of the total States expenditure on education has decreased slowly over time from around 28% in the 1970s to approximately 20% today.
• The Education Board is aiming to achieve sustainable and stable use of public money to meet the Department's needs and what the public expects of an education service. It will endeavour to reduce costs while maintaining the quality of service delivery.

By resolution of the States, we are required to maintain three separate budget elements: the General Budget, Grants to Colleges and Libraries, and the Higher Education Budget. No movement of funds between the budgets is permissible.

• The Education Board's budget target in 2010 was to restrain overall expenditure to a no real terms increase or less. This was achieved. While the cash sums involved increased year to year, the increases were below both measures of inflation (RPI and RPIX) and therefore represent a reduction in real terms expenditure. We underspent our total authorised budget for 2010 by £2,583,000 or 3.4%. We have also made savings on our 2011 authorised budget and these will be confirmed later in the year.
• We continually review our services to ensure that they remain fit for both current and future purpose and represent value for money. Current and forthcoming self-generated reviews include: energy usage/conservation, school catering provision, transport, special needs provision, the College of Further Education, other education services and staff deployment.
• Staffing costs represent 80% of our general budget and around 90% of school budgets. All vacancies are reviewed as they arise and consideration given as to whether the post is still required or whether the service can be delivered in a different and more efficient way.
• We support the Financial Transformation Programme and its efforts to realise very real savings across the States. Our staff are involved to a greater or lesser degree in a small number of specific education related opportunities and numerous cross departmental workstreams; Finance; Value for Money; Property and Asset Management; IT; Procurement and Human Resources.

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