Financial Management Arrangements for Extended Schools

Funding for the Extended Schools programme is targeted on children and young people from areas of greatest need. This funding has been ring-fenced to support various before and after school activities which must be linked to the key outcomes framework (linked to the Government’s 10 year Strategy for Children and Young People in Northern Ireland).

Such activities may include

breakfast clubs
after-school study support and after-school youth
sport and leisure activities
programmes for parents and community use of schools
creating a new ethos and culture for schools
facilitating partnerships and collaboration in order to deliver better outcomes for children.

The focus will be on supporting learning, healthy lifestyles and creativity.

Financial Management Arrangements 2010-11 (Voluntary Grammar and Grant Maintained Integrated Schools [pdf / 672KB] This document sets out the specific financial arrangements to apply to the use and management of the Extended Schools' funding by voluntary grammar and grant maintained integrated schools in 2010/11.

Financial Management Arrangements For Extended Schools 2010-11 (Excluding Special Schools, VGS and G [pdf / 688KB] This document sets out the specific financial arrangements to apply to the use and management of the Extended Schools' funding in 2010/11. (Excluding Special Schools, VGS and GMIs)

Financial Management Arrangements For Extended Schools 2010-11(Special Schools) [pdf / 692KB] This document sets out the specific financial arrangements to apply to the use and management of the Extended Schools' funding by special schools in 2010/11. The arrangements align with those of the controlled and maintained schools but recognise the distinctive aspects of the Partial Scheme of Delegation that operates for the funding of special schools, in particular, the fact that staff costs are a charge to the Board and that only other costs form a charge against the school's delegated budget