The chancellor told the Commons austerity is “coming to an end” today, announcing funding boosts for the Ministry of Defence to the tune of £1bn and adult social care of £650m.
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.
The lowest proportion of people were employed in the UK's public sector in March 2018 since comparable records began 13 years ago, ONS figures have shown.
The proportion of young people who think it is important to go to university has declined gradually over the past five years, according to figures released by an educational charity today.
Families rely more on food banks over the summer holidays because children do not have access to free school meals, according to an anti-poverty charity.
The total cost of the latest public sector pay rises announced by the government for some workers could be an extra £800m annually, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
