{"id":150,"date":"2011-11-16T11:32:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T11:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=150"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:26:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:26:24","slug":"links-public-accounts-committee-on-how-funding-is-allocated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/links-public-accounts-committee-on-how-funding-is-allocated\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: Public Accounts Committee on how funding is allocated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right;\" ><a class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-via=\"\" data-count=\"none\" data-related=\"mohanjith:S H Mohanjith\" data-lang=\"en\" data-url=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/links-public-accounts-committee-on-how-funding-is-allocated\/\" data-text=\"Links: Public Accounts Committee on how funding is allocated\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=&#038;count=none&#038;related=mohanjith%3AS%20H%20Mohanjith&#038;lang=en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Feducation%2F2011%2F11%2Flinks-public-accounts-committee-on-how-funding-is-allocated%2F&#038;text=Links%3A%20Public%20Accounts%20Committee%20on%20how%20funding%20is%20allocated\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-15741908\">From the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Under the system of formula-based grants, funding given to schools with similar needs could vary by up to 40%, the Public Accounts Committee said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The data used to calculate awards was often out of date, its report found.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ministers are reviewing the grants, with a new system for councils designed to give them more financial autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the cross-party Public Accounts Committee, which scrutinises government spending, said the three principal mechanisms for doing so &#8211; Primary Care Trust Allocations, Dedicated Schools Grant and Local Government Formula Grant &#8211; had serious weaknesses.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s some useful information there for anyone who wants to start a &#8216;Follow The Money&#8217; series of posts on how funding is allocated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetFrom the BBC: &#8220;Under the system of formula-based grants, funding given to schools with similar needs could vary by up to 40%, the Public Accounts Committee said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,9],"tags":[70,71,69,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}