>The planned cuts to be imposed on every school in England and Wales – with figures detailing what this amounts to per pupil – will be available on a revamped version of the school cuts website, run by the unions and to be unveiled this week.
>In Sunak’s Richmond constituency, in North Yorkshire, unions say four schools will lose more than £100,000 in the year from April 2023, with 40 seeing reductions of more than £100 per pupil. About 75% of schools in the constituency face some cuts.
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>The unions say the calculations are based on official but not easily available government data on schools funding from the last comprehensive spending review.
>They have also factored in inflation predictions from the Bank of England and conservative estimates of increases in schools’ costs, such as a 2% rise in teachers’ pay and higher energy bills.
>The unions say the data has been independently verified by leading economists, who conclude it is reliable. If funding changes that affect school budgets are made in Hunt’s financial statement on 17 November, the data will be immediately adjusted.
*The Observer*
Just to add some context to this. My school is apparently loosing 380k. But that’s not the full picture. The school is having to pay out more for heating, isn’t getting any help from the government for the pay increase to staff (infact the opposite, a cut). This means our school is potentially going to be 500k in dept plus (and that’s with some cost saving things like no trips, less practicals in science etc.). Means the leaky roof can’t be fixed. The single glazing windows in the rooms that are the same temperature as the outside, will remain cold. There’s no money to fix what’s broken so it’s just getting worst. And more and more cuts means what is already giving will break. And more things will go that way.
Oh good I’m sure this means the banging in my classroom caused by the heating the that disrupts my classes for a few hours everyday will soon be sorted!
Though if I’m honest I had hoped it would be because we could afford to fix the heating not because we couldn’t afford to turn it on.
Sounds like they want kids to work instead of education….
This is a great idea. Hopefully it mobilises parents to vote the Tories out at the next opportunity.
Looking around me, some are losing 300+ per pupil, some 800+, one over 1000 and wow, another over 1500 per pupil, wtf.
Looks very much like (even ignoring the rampant crime/stealing/incompetence from the current government) the public face the same “simple inescapable choice” – do you hate your children/grandchildren or not?
Sadly the last couple of times the boomers voted that they in fact do hate them.
Pity their privacy policy says they’ll drop advertising tracking cookies and there’s no opt-out.
It has always utterly baffled me why education gets so many cuts. There are SO many other things that could be cut instead. Investing in education is investing in the future to ensure that things like this don’t happen again.
But then that is long term planning, something governments seem to have a huge problem with.
I don’t know exactly how Academy funding works, but at my old Secondary after I’d left, a particular teacher (looking at you Andrew) heavily pushed for it to become an Academy.
He successfully got it to be, and with himself as head.
First thing he did? Double his salary.
So you’ve got a cycle of cuts and greed.
I’m sure this is totally accurate and has no political leaning whatsoever
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>The planned cuts to be imposed on every school in England and Wales – with figures detailing what this amounts to per pupil – will be available on a revamped version of the school cuts website, run by the unions and to be unveiled this week.
>In Sunak’s Richmond constituency, in North Yorkshire, unions say four schools will lose more than £100,000 in the year from April 2023, with 40 seeing reductions of more than £100 per pupil. About 75% of schools in the constituency face some cuts.
>
>The unions say the calculations are based on official but not easily available government data on schools funding from the last comprehensive spending review.
>They have also factored in inflation predictions from the Bank of England and conservative estimates of increases in schools’ costs, such as a 2% rise in teachers’ pay and higher energy bills.
>The unions say the data has been independently verified by leading economists, who conclude it is reliable. If funding changes that affect school budgets are made in Hunt’s financial statement on 17 November, the data will be immediately adjusted.
*The Observer*
Just to add some context to this. My school is apparently loosing 380k. But that’s not the full picture. The school is having to pay out more for heating, isn’t getting any help from the government for the pay increase to staff (infact the opposite, a cut). This means our school is potentially going to be 500k in dept plus (and that’s with some cost saving things like no trips, less practicals in science etc.). Means the leaky roof can’t be fixed. The single glazing windows in the rooms that are the same temperature as the outside, will remain cold. There’s no money to fix what’s broken so it’s just getting worst. And more and more cuts means what is already giving will break. And more things will go that way.
Oh good I’m sure this means the banging in my classroom caused by the heating the that disrupts my classes for a few hours everyday will soon be sorted!
Though if I’m honest I had hoped it would be because we could afford to fix the heating not because we couldn’t afford to turn it on.
Sounds like they want kids to work instead of education….
This is a great idea. Hopefully it mobilises parents to vote the Tories out at the next opportunity.
Looking around me, some are losing 300+ per pupil, some 800+, one over 1000 and wow, another over 1500 per pupil, wtf.
Looks very much like (even ignoring the rampant crime/stealing/incompetence from the current government) the public face the same “simple inescapable choice” – do you hate your children/grandchildren or not?
Sadly the last couple of times the boomers voted that they in fact do hate them.
Pity their privacy policy says they’ll drop advertising tracking cookies and there’s no opt-out.
It has always utterly baffled me why education gets so many cuts. There are SO many other things that could be cut instead. Investing in education is investing in the future to ensure that things like this don’t happen again.
But then that is long term planning, something governments seem to have a huge problem with.
I don’t know exactly how Academy funding works, but at my old Secondary after I’d left, a particular teacher (looking at you Andrew) heavily pushed for it to become an Academy.
He successfully got it to be, and with himself as head.
First thing he did? Double his salary.
So you’ve got a cycle of cuts and greed.
I’m sure this is totally accurate and has no political leaning whatsoever