Nursery World - Tens of thousands of schools hit by 'deep unfair' cuts to funding

More than 16,500 schools will be worse off next year than they were in 2015, according to new research.

The teaching unions say the cuts to funding are making it harder for schools to 'make ends meet'

The School Cuts Coalition’s updated interactive map of England’s schools reveals that under the new cash allocation figures, published by the Department for Education on Friday, 83 per cent of schools will receive less money per pupil than they did four years ago.

This is despite an extra £14 million being allocated to schools, which the Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed would help ‘level up school funding.’

On average, schools will see a cut to funding of £245 per primary pupil, rising to £304 for a secondary pupil.

The coalition, made up of the six teaching unions, compared figures from the Schools Block allocations for 2015-16 to 2018-19 and the National Funding Formula indicative allocations for 2019-20 and 2020-21.

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