The council wrote to schools and colleges last month warning of funding cuts because of increases in numbers of young people taking part in post-16 education. But it has now issued a statement saying the reduced funding allocations issued last month were provisional, not final as it originally stated.
The council said it wrote to schools in March because of a legal duty to give them an allocation by the end of that month, and the initial funding allocations were based on resources available at the time. It said it would write again by the end of this month following "cross-government discussions" on how to fund the increased number of students.
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