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
Monday
12th Feb 2024
Funding needed to keep NI schools open, warns new minister
Education ‘cannot continue with current levels of capital funding’, says Northern Ireland’s new minister
Cutting tutoring funding would be ‘national travesty’
Schools have indicated they could not afford to carry on providing catch-up tutoring if the government stops the NTP subsidy
Rural secondaries ‘struggling to provide basic education’
Falling student rolls are leading to staffing cuts in rural secondary schools in Scotland, warn parents – who are demanding a guaranteed core curriculum for all pupils
Thursday
8th Feb 2024
RAAC schools not expected to provide wraparound childcare
All schools will be expected to provide wraparound childcare on their site, ‘unless there is a reasonable justification not to’, DfE confirms in new guidance
Weekly round-up: ‘Earn and learn’ route into teaching and MAT deficits
This week’s essential education news includes the government launching its Teacher Degree Apprenticeship and new research uncovering multi-academy trusts’ worsening finances
More than 100 schools with RAAC will be rebuilt
The government today announced which schools containing the potentially dangerous concrete will be rebuilt and which will be given a grant to remove it
Extend catch-up cash or attainment gap will widen, PM told
More than 500 schools have signed a letter to Rishi Sunak, Gillian Keegan and Jeremy Hunt calling for more National Tutoring Programme funding in next month’s spring Budget
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Tuesday
6th Feb 2024
Academy trust GAG pooling could triple, research shows
Four in 10 academy trusts surveyed said they wanted to move to a GAG pooling finance model
Big rise in academy trusts with in-year deficits
The latest Kreston UK Academies Benchmark Report has found that more trusts are having to eat into their reserves as they cope with financial uncertainty