Data set from LA and school expenditure

S251 Outturn - Children and Young People's Services (National, Regional, LA levels)

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Published 16 December 2021

Last updated 16 December 2021

This file contains details of expenditure on children's services, and young peoples services by local authorities collected via the Section 251 Outturn return.

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Data set details

• Theme: Finance and funding
• Publication: LA and school expenditure
• Release: Financial year 2020-21
• Number of rows: 35,624
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Grants inside of aggregate external finance (£ million)
  • Grants outside of aggregate external finance (£ million)
  • Income (£ million)
  • Net revenue expenditure (£ million)
  • Per capita net current expenditure (£)
  • Spend on LAs own provision (£ million)
  • Spend on other public sector provision (£ million)
  • Spend on private provision (£ million)
  • Spend on voluntary provision (£ million)
  • Total gross expenditure (£ million)
  • Total net current expenditure (£ million)
• Filters:
  • Category of expenditure
• Time period: 2015-16 to 2020-21

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_name	country_code	region_name	region_code	new_la_code	la_name	old_la_code	category_of_expenditure	description_of_expenditure	own_provision	private_provision	other_public_sector_provision	voluntary_provision	total_expenditure	income	net_current_expenditure	grants_inside_AEF	grants_outside_AEF	net_revenue_expenditure	per_capita_net_current_spend
201516	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						Capital expenditure	4.0.1 Capital Expenditure from Revenue (CERA) (Childrens and young people services)	:	:	:	:	125.69474	8.0482	117.64654	:	:	:	10
201516	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						Children looked after	3.1.1 Residential care	342.39524	696.81149	24.19883	39.79064	1103.1962	65.79948	1037.39672	6.11686	0.53917	1030.74069	89
201516	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						Children looked after	3.1.10 Asylum seeker services children	34.27598	19.6796	1.57482	2.42699	57.95739	4.42919	53.5282	22.53429	6.18298	24.81094	5
201516	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						Children looked after	3.1.11 Total Children Looked After	2138.6047	1581.78174	82.16146	139.03892	3941.58683	180.03612	3761.5507	103.62716	13.62666	3644.29689	324
201516	Financial year	National	England	E92000001						Children looked after	3.1.2 Fostering services	845.46521	649.5546	21.16307	51.4075	1567.59038	40.01903	1527.57135	26.47856	1.24673	1499.84605	132

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 12 variables

Variable name	Variable description
description_of_expenditure	Category of expenditure - Filter by expenditure category
grants_inside_AEF	Grants inside of aggregate external finance (£ million)
grants_outside_AEF	Grants outside of aggregate external finance (£ million)
income	Income (£ million)
net_current_expenditure	Total net current expenditure (£ million)
net_revenue_expenditure	Net revenue expenditure (£ million)
other_public_sector_provision	Spend on other public sector provision (£ million)
own_provision	Spend on LAs own provision (£ million)
per_capita_net_current_spend	Per capita net current expenditure (£)
private_provision	Spend on private provision (£ million)
total_expenditure	Total gross expenditure (£ million)
voluntary_provision	Spend on voluntary provision (£ million)

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