LA maintained schools with suspended budgets or notices of financial concern since 2020
Case reference FOI2025/01513
Received 1 August 2025
Published 13 August 2025
Request
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information held by your local authority on local authority-maintained schools with suspended budgets or notices of financial concern. Specifically, I would like to be sent:
• A year-by-year breakdown of the number of local authority-maintained schools with suspended budgets between 2020 and the most recently recorded date.
• A year-by-year breakdown of the number of local authority-maintained schools with notices of financial concern between 2020 and the most recently recorded date.
• For the most recently recorded year, the names and URNs of the schools with suspended budgets and the reason why their budget was suspended.
• For the most recently recorded year, the names and URNs of the schools with notices of financial concern and the reason why they were issued with the notice.
If any of the information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary.
Response
• A year-by-year breakdown of the number of local authority-maintained schools with suspended budgets between 2020 and the most recently recorded date.
0 – there have been no local authority maintained schools with suspended budgets during the time period requested.
• A year-by-year breakdown of the number of local authority-maintained schools with notices of financial concern between 2020 and the most recently recorded date.
0 – there have been no local authority maintained schools with notices of financial concern during the time period requested.
• For the most recently recorded year, the names and URNs of the schools with suspended budgets and the reason why their budget was suspended.
N / A
• For the most recently recorded year, the names and URNs of the schools with notices of financial concern and the reason why they were issued with the notice.
N / A
Documents
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