Barnet Maintained Schools Supply Staff Expenditure

Barnet Local Education Authority publishes annual statutory returns detailing supply teacher costs for its maintained schools. The dataset separates direct supply cover payments from agency staff payments using Consistent Financial Reporting codes E02 and E26. It provides a basis for financial benchmarking but excludes academy schools, which are not reported to the borough.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking school-level supply staff expenditure against local authority averages.
• Analyzing trends in direct versus agency supply teacher costs over time.
• Assessing financial efficiency of maintained schools using statutory CFR return data.

Strengths

• Data is part of a statutory annual return to the Department for Education, suggesting formal validation.
• Cross-platform presence on UK and EU open data portals indicates recognized public value.

Limitations

• Column names and row counts are unknown across all sources, limiting immediate usability.
• Metadata for size, license, and author is consistently missing.
• Conflicting 'last updated' dates (2026-04-29 vs 2023-05-22) create uncertainty about freshness.

Provenance

Source

London Borough of Barnet, based on Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) data returns to the DfE.

Collection Method

Figures taken from Local Benchmarking Spreadsheet based on statutory CFR returns.

Time Range

Annual returns published each August/September; specific years not stated.

Freshness

Last updated dates conflict: 2026-04-29 (uk_data) and 2023-05-22 (eu_open_data).

Geography

Barnet, London, United Kingdom (specifically Barnet Maintained Schools).