query about school budgets

angelheart-xx

does anyone know whats the part of the educational school budget is called that is used for educational trips to i.e. museums etc is called..

thanks in advance

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1more?

hi im a school gov and we dont have any money in the budget to pay for trips, could be different in scotland but i suppose the schools private fund could be used it is money made up from fundraising not done through p.t.a like photo comission ect
sorry cant be of more help

msb5262

Hello,
I'm a schoolteacher and would also be of the opinion that there isn't any part of the budget which is specifically for trips. Whenever I've taken my class on a trip, I've had to find out all the costs then divide this by whatever number of children I'm taking - the resulting amount is what we ask parents to pay.
HTH
MsB

LJM

the budget per child as i thought per year is all educationally based eqiuptment/books/materials etc combined there is no set trip budget our school pays for small trips out of funds as they are all for the purpose of the curriculum, all they ask for is a £1 donation towards the school bus which is only fair,any bigger trips a price may be asked for.

kink

we have a cost centre in our budget called "educational visits".
can I ask why you ask
K

squashy

kink wrote: »

we have a cost centre in our budget called "educational visits".
can I ask why you ask
K

Yes we do too, although it is linked into the general code for Educational Materials for returns purposes. The EM budget is effectively split between cost centres for Art, Literacy, PE etc as well as trips. Also interested as to why you ask?

kelloggs36

I may be wrong, but there was another thread about money being asked for school things, and somebody on there stated that the LA has to fund school trips. As a teacher, I have not been made aware of this, and we have to cost it and divide by the number of children - which can work out expensive as coaches cost a fortune.

Spendless

I was convinced I'd seen something about this on a letter from DS's school so I've found what it said and copied and pasted from their website. I don't know why schools 'cannot' though

You may know that schools cannot apply a compulsory charge for the cost of
such trips but may, however, ask for a voluntary contribution. The cost of the
trip is £3.50 per pupil, which includes travel and insurance. We hope that you

will feel able to make a contribution, which at least covers the cost.

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Savvy_Sue

If it's part of the curriculum, they can't legally say "Pay up or your child can't go". Therefore they can only ask for a voluntary contribution. However, without the voluntary contributions, they can't afford to run the trips.

squashy

Well the crux of it is, if parents don't pay then the school has to effectively use up money it would have otherwise spent on books and equipment for the children.

LJM

well said squashy