Increasing levels of child poverty are affecting children and young people’s education, with schools dealing with ‘Dickensian’ levels of squalor, a major teaching union has warned.
A teaching union has said the £114m education spend announced by the secretary of state at the Conservative Party Conference was a “drop in the ocean”.
More than 1,000 head teachers from across England marched today and delivered a letter to the chancellor to convey their concerns about the state of school funding.
Labour would scrap academies and free schools and return control of education back to councils, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner told the party’s conference in Liverpool today.
Councils have long supplied schools with services from finance to catering. With market changes, they need to act to keep this income, says Richard Harries.
School spending per pupil in England has fallen by 8% in real terms since 2009-10, more than the drop seen in Wales, according to an Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis.
If the government is serious about improving the life chances of poorer children, it should reconsider its plans for grammar schools, says the Education Policy Institute’s Natalie Perera.
Expanding grammar schools will benefit children in better off areas rather than increase opportunity for all, says the Lib Dem’s education spokesperson Layla Moran.
The government today announced a £50m funding boost to create more school places for children with special education needs and disabilities, but council leaders demanded this be matched with a review...
The schools watchdog has failed to hit targets while suffering “constants cuts” to its budget for more than a decade, the National Audit Office has said.
The education minister has come under fire from both sides of the Commons for failing to confirm schools will not see cuts as a result of the new funding formula.
The governance, accountability and financial management of academy trusts running schools in England “fall short”, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
