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
6th Dec 2021
Covid catch-up tuition 92% ‘adrift of’ year-end target
EXCLUSIVE: Small take-up of the government’s ‘complex’ National Tutoring Programme is ‘very worrying’, say heads
Why early years funding increases still fall short
An experienced early years head explains why 21p per hour funding increases don’t go far enough for a sector that feels it is continually overlooked when the cash is handed out
Crime ‘hotspot’ schools to get county line gang support
School leaders to spearhead scheme to prevent pupils from becoming involved in crime and becoming permanently excluded
Thursday
25th Nov 2021
Uniform law changes: The issues on headteachers’ minds
A new law requiring school uniform costs to be kept low means yet another thing for heads and SLTs to think about – as insights from the Headteachers’ Roundtable forum make clear
Watchdog calls for probe into academy trust surpluses
More than 1 in 5 academy trusts had reserves equivalent to 20 per cent or more of annual income in 2019-20, says report