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Tom Goldman

Tom leads the Funding Policy Unit within the Department for Education. 

This means being responsible for revenue funding for schools, early years and high needs, providing the core budgets for all state-funded provision for children up to the age of 16 (and to age 25 for young people with high needs).  

The Funding Policy Unit contributes to the wider school resource management portfolio, developing products like the school financial benchmarking service to support schools to use resources as efficiently as possible.

Prior to joining the Funding Policy Unit in 2015, Tom worked in a variety of posts within the Department for Education, working on school curriculum, qualifications and standards.