A school funding blunder will not affect a reward voucher scheme for civil servants, the Department for Education has said.
A spokesperson said it would be “unfair to penalise junior staff from across the department, who are most often the recipients of non-cash rewards” for an error that shaved £370 million off indicative school budgets for 2024-25.
Ministers recently confirmed the DfE paid out £445,000 in non-cash vouchers to employees in 2022-23.
It prompted questions about whether the scheme would continue this year after the revelation that funding allocations data sent out in July was incorrect.
