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17 Dec 18
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.
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8 Nov 18
Academy schools in England recorded a £6.1bn deficit at the end of last August, leading to one major teaching union calling them “unsustainable”.
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28 Sep 18
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.
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25 Sep 18
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.
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17 Sep 18
The education funding squeeze for 16 to 18 year olds in England is “clear and worrying”, a think-tank report has said.
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14 Sep 18
The Welsh government will receive £23.5m to fund teachers’ pay rises, the UK government has said.
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6 Sep 18
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.
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3 Sep 18
Council leaders have warned of a secondary school “emergency” after calculating 134,000 children will miss out on a place in 2023-24.
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31 Aug 18
With cuts to budgets and falling local authority support, schools are calling for more funding in next year’s spending review, writes Karen Day.
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25 Jun 18
Let’s end the commodification of our public services and start valuing them as public goods that serve the interest of society, argues John Tizard.
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4 Jun 18
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.
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25 May 18
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.
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25 May 18
The Scottish Government has allocated £50m of funding for schools to help close the attainment gap in the country.
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23 May 18
The government has confirmed where £6m of previously announced money to improve maths in the North is to go.
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14 May 18
County councils are dipping into generic schools grants to manage overspending on special needs education, an umbrella group has found.
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27 Apr 18
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.
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3 Apr 18
The governance, accountability and financial management of academy trusts running schools in England “fall short”, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
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26 Mar 18
Children in the North of England face being “left behind” because they are more likely to come from a poor community and attend a weak school, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said...
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21 Mar 18
Schools in disadvantaged areas are to receive a £26m funding boost to provide children with a free school breakfast, the government has announced.
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15 Nov 17
A letter endorsed by 5,000 head teachers across England has been handed to Downing Street calling for an extra £1.7bn in school funding.
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16 Oct 17
Head teachers are urging MPs to take the education funding crisis seriously, warning that school budgets are at “breaking point”.
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1 Sep 17
Almost half of councils risk being unable to meet rising demand for secondary school places within the next five years, the Local Government Association has warned.
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28 Jul 17
Councils have accused the government of “hijacking” the soft drinks levy to plug the hole in education budgets.
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5 Jul 17
The government has dropped the controversial Conservative manifesto commitment to scrap free school meals for infants.
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25 May 17
The Welsh Government could do more to ensure value for money for its £1.5bn school modernisation programme, a Welsh Audit Office report has concluded.