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Improving expenditure data (Section 251)

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20 January 2025

22 April 2024

Version 1.0

Leon Feinstein, Ellie Suh, Jonny Woodthorpe, Michael Hanks, Andrew Rome, Alan Bermingham, Yousef Khalifa Aleghfeli, Anne Pinney, Helen Trivedi, Tom Rintoul and Ben Thomas

DDSF, DfE, Barnet, Research

Barnet London Borough Council report their research into how enhancements might be made to annual children’s services budget and outturn statements, which local authorities submit under section 251 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009.

They recommend how section 251 returns might be made more dynamic and provide more insights to central and local government about children’s services spending.

Their research included a pan-London pilot that integrated care placement costs into the children looked after data return, with the aim of creating a scalable tool for regional analysis of placement sufficiency. 

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