§ I announced last week that around £1.5 billion would be made available in each of the next 3 years to the schools standards fund to enable schools to galvanise reform on standards, behaviour and choice. Details of the Standards Fund grants available to schools and LEAs for 2003–04 were provided to LEAs on 29 November. This included the allocations to individual LEAs of most grants; some allocations, where the data needed to calculate LEAs1 allocations is not yet available, will be made later. The Department also circulated to LEAs on 10 December a forward indication of the sums planned to be made available, nationally, through the Standards Fund in 2004–05 and 2005–06.
§ Copies of both these documents have been placed in the Library.