Issue details

Please see table in the attached Officer Decision Record detailing requests for uplifts from Providers for out of authority education requested for the year from 1st April 2021.
The uplift request relates to the cost of places prior to the 2021 framework for the Council being put in place. For these placements the contract with the providers states that; ‘The Provider may in assessing their need for an annual, inflationary, fee request consider information derived from a number of sources such as RPI/Teachers Pay award, but at all times must pay due heed to working in partnership with Local Authorities to attain Value for Money and to achieve efficiency improvements’. Both parties will have regard to the actual costs incurred by the Provider. If the Provider proposes to increase the Price and/or Additional Service Fee, then such increases must be demonstrated by the Provider as being justified.

For transparency, the main reasons for the requests of uplifts from the below providers is due to unavoidable cost pressures such as inflation, National Living Wage increases and statutory pension contributions of staffing.