Funding

The latest news and analysis on funding received by local authority and academy schools in the UK, including government spending, advice on budgeting and more

Friday

19th Apr 2024

3 in 4 primary schools having to cut TAs
The number of schools having to cut teachers and teaching assistants because of funding difficulties has been branded ‘disgraceful’
Primary school age children being escorted by an obscured teacher

Thursday

18th Apr 2024

Weekly round-up: Capita loses Sats and GCSE fears
This week’s essential education news includes Capita losing the contract to run Sats and a warning about high absence among this year’s GCSE students
Round up

Wednesday

17th Apr 2024

Why school funding needs a major overhaul
The way schools are funded is fundamentally broken – it’s time to put it right, says Samuel Skerritt of the Confederation of School Trusts
Why school funding needs a major overhaul
Trust leaders push for major funding reform
The CST’s proposals include a new funding formula covering minimum operating costs for all schools, including SEND and AP provision
Bank notes

Tuesday

16th Apr 2024

Larger MATs have ‘highest teacher turnover’
EPI produces major report assessing performance of different types of school groups
People going in and out of revolving doors

Monday

15th Apr 2024

3 in 10 parents say school cuts hitting child’s education
Most parents would rather see school funding increased than have their taxes cut, a Parentkind poll shows
Children in school next to a cut in half coin

Saturday

13th Apr 2024

10 questions with... Jennifer Blunden
The chief executive of 34-school Truro and Penwith Academy Trust discusses her own school days, the challenge of running schools in isolated areas and why we need a fairer funding system
Dr Jennifer Blunden

Friday

12th Apr 2024

Are school clusters the key to successful MAT expansion?
The chief executive of the Cabot Learning Federation reveals how creating clusters has helped the trust to promote both collaboration and school autonomy as it has grown from 2 to 35 academies
Collaboration tetris trusts
DfE could spend £9m on cost-cutting advisers for schools
The DfE is offering a multi-million-pound contract to supply school resource management advisers – but doubts have been raised about the SRMA cost-cutting scheme
The Department for Education is inviting organisations to bid for at least £7 million to supply schools with advisers to help manage resources.

Thursday

11th Apr 2024

Schools face £1bn funding hit from falling pupil rolls
Hits to primary and secondary funding streams could force school mergers or closures, Education Policy Institute research suggests
Scissors money

Wednesday

10th Apr 2024

Half of students ‘disadvantaged’ on work experience
Many state school students don’t have access to work experience – and this is a barrier to entry into top universities, report warns
No access

Tuesday

9th Apr 2024

Poorer children helped by Sure Start ‘got better GCSEs’
Having access to a Sure Start centre significantly improved the educational achievement of children, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies research
Children living near Sure Start centres in their first five years of life performed better in their GCSEs than others, according to a new report