Capital allocations
Basic Need Grant Funding
The Department for Education allocates basic need capital funding to each local authority to create new school places. This enables the local authority to expand existing schools and build new ones where an existing school cannot be sufficiently expanded, to ensure every child has a school place. Basic Need Grant is one of the sources of capital funding used to fund the New School Places Programme. The allocation of funding is determined by the annual Schools Capacity (SCAP) data return. The allocation is calculated based on comparison of school capacity against forecast mainstream pupil numbers from reception to year 11.