Introduction
About this guidance.
皇冠体育app Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow this guidance.
皇冠体育app consistent financial reporting framework (CFR) provides a standard template for schools to report their income and expenditure in the financial year 2024 to 2025. 皇冠体育app information collected is used to support benchmarking and enables comparative reports to be produced for governors and local authorities.
皇冠体育app CFR framework applies to maintained schools and pupil referral units. It is optional for nurseries and non-maintained special schools.
Governing bodies of maintained schools must provide their local authorities with a financial statement, presented in accordance with the approved headings and sub-headings set out in the and in compliance with the established accounting practices of the local authority.
This includes:
- all allocations and other income received in a financial year including any balances brought forward from the previous financial year
- all expenditure within that financial year
- a summary of the school鈥檚 financial position at the end of that financial year
This guidance provides the definitions for each CFR schedule approved heading code to assist schools in mapping income and expenditure to the appropriate areas of the CFR framework.
皇冠体育app guidance is aimed at:
- local authority finance officers
- school finance officers
- business managers
- bursars
皇冠体育app Department for Education (DfE) uses COLLECT (collections on-line for learning, education, children and teachers) to capture CFR data from schools and local authorities. You can read聽further information about the CFR framework and data collection.