Catalogue description Department of Education and Science: Pooling Committee and sub-committees: Agenda, Minutes and Papers

The Pooling Committee was established in 1968. Its function was "consider and keep under review the arrangements for pooling educational expenditure with particular reference to teacher training and advanced further education and to make recommendation to the Secretary of State or the local authority associations as may be appropriate". The committee consisted of representatives nominated by the local authority associations with a department of Education and Science Chairman and Secretariat. Pooling ceased with effect from March 1990.

Pooling was a service provided by the government for the local education authorities. This service was set up to re-distribute expenditure among all authorities. Pooling operated on a rolling basis with authorities submitting expenditure returns at four stages: forecast expenditure before each financial year; estimated expenditure in the course of its provisional out-turn; a few months after it; and final out-turn. Each authority's share was calculated in accordance with agreed formula and the difference between the calculated share (contribution) and the amount of poolable expenditure incurred by each authority was known as the pooling adjustment.