The Guardian report includes details of education policy plans said to be under discussion by the Department for Education and Number 10, from a confidential briefing paper seen by the newspaper.
The document, which is dated 22 August and marked 'Official-Sensitive’, includes proposals for billions of pounds of new funding, a crackdown on pupils’ behaviour, and a new wave of free schools to be announced by the Government within days.
While any extra funding would likely be welcomed by school leaders, unions responding to the claims doubted whether the figure would be enough given the scale of funding cuts schools have already experienced.
On teaching assistants, the document reveals that Downing Street and the Treasury are concerned there may be too many TAs rather than too few.
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