> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.neoagent.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# DfE Financial Benchmarking and Insights

> Let Neo read each school's published spending in England, such as its ICT and IT support spending, by URN

The Department for Education (DfE) publishes what each school in England spends and receives each year, through its Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool (FBIT). Connect it, and Neo reads each school's ICT spending from those returns by the school's URN, line by line and with IT support included, with its pupils and the year.

## What Neo can do with DfE Financial Benchmarking and Insights

* Run a scheduled agent each year that reads the ICT spending of each school client and writes it to the client's record in your PSA, such as custom fields on a Halo client
* Compare a school's IT spending and pupils with its support contract value
* Read a school's spending for a technician, on a ticket or in a chat

See [DfE Financial Benchmarking API](https://docs.neoagent.io/agents/tools/management/dfe-fbit-api.md) for the permission group.

## What DfE publishes

| Schools | Return | ICT lines |
| - | - | - |
| Local authority maintained schools | Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR), by financial year | E20A Connectivity, E20B Onsite servers, E20C IT learning resources, E20D Administration software and systems, E20E Laptops, desktops and tablets, E20F Other hardware, E20G IT support, and capital ICT |
| Academies | Academies Accounts Return (AAR), by academic year | ICT learning resources only |

Academies report no IT support line to DfE, so Neo cannot give an IT support figure for an academy. DfE publishes a new CFR year in late summer and a new AAR year early in the next calendar year, and sometimes re-issues a published year with corrections.

FBIT has no API for other services, so Neo reads the files DfE publishes on FBIT's [data sources page](https://financial-benchmarking-and-insights-tool.education.gov.uk/data-sources), under the Open Government Licence. The returns list every school in England, not your clients, so there is no company mapping to set up. Store each school's URN on its client in your PSA, or name it in the agent's instructions.

## Next steps

> [card] [Connect DfE Financial Benchmarking and Insights](https://docs.neoagent.io/integrations/dfe-fbit/connecting-to-neo.md)
>
> Switch it on in Neo. DfE's returns are open data and need no key.


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