Support staff training has been a huge success in recent years and it has transformed the professional status of the wider workforce. So removing 100 per cent of the funds available for training teaching assistants is a huge backward step and it will throw the schools system into chaos.
The chaos will arise because of the change in classroom cover policy. This policy leads to a greater need for teaching assistants to be trained to become Higher Level Teaching Assistants (HLTAs), not lesser - but schools are now being told that there is no money available for this.
The axe is falling so quickly that even those people preparing to start training programmes in September will no longer be able to do that. Many schools are simply unable to fill the funding gap at such short notice.
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