Analysis released today by the School Cuts coalition shows that despite additional funding announced by the Government last month, more than 80 per cent of schools in England – around 16,000 – will still have less money per pupil in 2020 in real terms than they did four years ago, when schools started to feel the impact of spending cuts.
Last month, the Government promised an extra £14 billion for schools over three years, including £700m in funding for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
The coalition, made up of the six teaching unions, says that the Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised school funding would be ‘levelled up across the entire country’ and that there would be ‘no winners or losers’, but its research paints a very different picture.
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