School finance

Guidance for managing budgets, costs and funding covering academy conversion, public duties claims, statutory information and VAT.

Public duties claims

All Essex schools, pupil referral units (PRUs), and adult community colleges can claim to cover the costs of:

  • covering staff absences arising from jury service​
  • county court meetings
  • union duties

To make a claim download our Public Duties claim form (xls, 35KB).