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

Wednesday

26th Apr 2023

Plan for ‘a range’ of teacher pay levels, schools told
DfE tells heads they should budget for all possible pay review body outcomes after its pay offer was rejected by all four unions and ahead of further teacher strikes tomorrow
Teacher pay: Schools should budget for a 'range' of pay levels, says DfE
Falling rolls fund will open to schools with lower Ofsted grades
DfE funding rule change aims to help schools hit by falling pupil numbers due to the decline in the birth rate
MATs shift cash to save primary schools
Two-thirds of heads ‘have to cut teaching assistants’
More schools are using pupil premium to plug funding gaps than at any point since polling began six years ago
School funding: Many schools are having to cut teaching assistants

Friday

21st Apr 2023

Scotland’s per-pupil spend highest in UK, but effects unclear
Per-pupil funding for schools in Scotland this year is more than 18 per cent higher than in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, IFS research shows – largely because of early years investment
Scotland’s per-pupil spend highest in UK, but effects unclear

Thursday

20th Apr 2023

Funding cut for disadvantaged pupils in Northern Ireland
Decision to scrap Extended Schools Programme has been described as ‘devastating’, and critics say Northern Ireland pupils’ education seems less valued than in the rest of the UK
Funding cut for disadvantaged pupils in Northern Ireland
Weekly round-up: New strike guidance and the 32.5-hour week
This week’s essential education news and analysis round-up includes new guidance for teacher strikes, heads voting on industrial action and calls for the DfE to ditch its plan for a minimum length of the school week
Weekly round-up: New strike guidance and the 32.5-hour week
A third of schools not using catch-up cash
Schools minister urges all eligible schools to use National Tutoring Programme funding ‘as exam season approaches’, but heads’ leader warns that subsidy rules and tight budgets are preventing take-up
Catch-up funding: Schools not using National Tutoring Programme

Tuesday

18th Apr 2023

Trainee educational psychologists ‘below minimum wage’
Scottish educational psychologists’ body calls for an ‘immediate increase in funding’ to prevent trainees abandoning their studies
Ink blot money
MAT funding: Why GAG pooling delivers equity for all
The CEO of a multi-academy trust that has long embraced the benefits of pooling its schools’ funding says the approach is fundamental to its vision of giving all pupils the same opportunities
Money pie

Monday

17th Apr 2023

The EHCP backlog is stretching us to breaking point
The long wait for education, health and care plan applications to be processed not only denies pupils with special educational needs the right support, it also puts massive strain on schools’ budgets, as this headteacher explains
Balloon popping

Thursday

13th Apr 2023

London’s primary free school meal scheme to be assessed
The Education Endowment Foundation is seeking a research team to evaluate the wider impacts of providing free school meals to primary pupils
Food on table
Stay in touch: The rise of international school alumni networks
For years, international schools ran ad hoc alumni networks or left it entirely to past students but now they are realising the benefits of keeping in touch with former cohorts, finds Simon Lock
Communication methods