{"id":211698,"date":"2025-06-25T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/211698\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T00:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:04:10","slug":"new-school-funding-system-for-wales-welcomed-by-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/211698\/","title":{"rendered":"New school funding system for Wales welcomed by union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The move came in a written statement from the cabinet secretary for education.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Laura Doel, national secretary at school leaders\u2019 union NAHT Cymru, said: &#8220;We\u2019ve campaigned long and hard to end the messy postcode lottery in school funding in Wales which is the product of 22 different local authority funding formulas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This system isn\u2019t fair for schools or pupils, and lacks transparency, and we\u2019re pleased the Welsh Government is finally acting upon this.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We will be studying the details of these proposals carefully to ensure they will create a fairer level playing field across the country when it comes to funding.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, Ms Doel said the reforms do not address the wider issue of underfunding in Welsh schools.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: &#8220;Slicing the pie more equally is a good starting point from which to build a properly funded education system.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The move came in a written statement from the cabinet secretary for education. Laura Doel, national secretary at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-211698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114741081915784515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}