Chief finance officer's (CFO) statement of the dedicated schools grant (DSG) including note to accounts figures

Complete both of the following digital forms for:

  • dedicated schools grant (DSG) assurance statement for the actual deployment of the 2023 to 2024 DSG, details of any fraud cases reported and recovered and numbers of schools subject to financial intervention by your local authority

  • the note to accounts figures for financial year 2023 to 2024.

Before submitting each of these digital forms, chief finance officers (CFO) should satisfy themselves that the DSG was used fully in support of the schools budget.

The Department for Education (DfE) does not require information about expenditure funded from other sources, such as Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) grants.

DfE will follow up all discrepancies highlighted in its scrutiny of the statement and note to the accounts with your local authority.

Consult as necessary the conditions of grant (opens in a new tab).

The deadline for both DSG assurance digital form submissions is 5pm on Friday, 7 February 2025.

DfE Sign-in

You need to have an account with the DfE Sign-in service to access the form. If you have not used DfE Sign-in before you will need to create an account (opens in new tab) and link this to your organisational setting.

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