Sheffield Education Funding Forum

The Forum is a statutory body that provides a formal channel of communication between ourselves and education providers in the city. It also serves as a mechanism for consultation on school funding.

There are three types of Forum member: school member, non-school member and other attendees. Membership is fully representative and proportionate of different school sectors. Non-school membership includes:

• early years private, voluntary and independent sector 
• Learn Sheffield
• the 16 to 19 sector
• faith schools
• trade unions
• other attendees include representation from ourselves, including the Cabinet Member for Education. Details of current Forum members, including which sector they represent are available to view and download. 

Education Forum current meeting papers

The agenda and papers for the Education Forum meeting on 26 February 2025 are available to download below. Papers from previous Forum meetings are available to download in the archive.
 

Forum working groups

These are set up when a particular issue/work stream requires more attention than can be given at regular meetings and includes wider representation than the Forum membership. Their role is to provide advice and recommendations for the Forum to consider.