Last month I wrote of the complexities surrounding the allocation of funds to schools. Since then there has been a continuing stream of media interest reporting claim and counter-claim by the Government, the employers and teachers' unions about responsibility for the mess ('Short changed', 24 April).
On 16 May the education secretary, Charles Clarke, said he was now going to allow schools in England to use previously ring-fenced allocations for building and maintenance for general spending. This, he said, would reduce the possibility of teacher redundancies. But he did not mention teaching assistants or nursery nurses, or say if it would be enough to enable schools to implement the new workload agreement due to be introduced in the autumn.
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