| Topic: | Re:Re:Government’s plans to cut schools’ budgets will remove £6m from Putney schools | |
| Posted by: | Nicholas Evans | |
| Date/Time: | 24/11/16 17:37:00 |
| Ms Sutters, The "speculation and guesswork" which you claim is "slanted" is in fact clearly based in fact. Here's how the figures were arrived at by the NUT: METHODOLOGY FOR NUT AND ATL SCHOOL BUDGET CUTS CALCULATIONS " We used published Department for Education data to calculate cuts to England’s primary and secondary schools over this Parliament, 2015 – 2020. We used the 2015/16 funding as the baseline. We calculated the impact of the cash freeze on per pupil income, the proposed cut to the Education Services Grant and the proposed introduction of a National Funding Formula. We included a minimum funding guarantee (MFG) as this has been in place since the Government started moving towards a National Funding Formula in 2013/14. If and when the Government produces its own formula, the website will be amended in order to provide revised predictions reflecting that formula. The assumptions we made are: - That inflation for schools will amount to 8% over the lifetime of this parliament. - This is the figure used by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). - That schools will continue to receive a minimum funding guarantee until 2020. - This guarantees that schools lose no more than 1.5% of their income per pupil per year, but with nothing to cover inflation. - That the Government will cut the Education Services Grant by 75%, as George Osborne announced in the 2015 Autumn Statement. - We have only measured the cut to academy and free school budgets. For all other schools, the ESG goes to the local authority to fund services for schools. These services are now being cut. - That the national funding formula due to be introduced in April 2018 will be that proposed by the f40 group. - Although it is almost certain that the Government will introduce a different formula to that proposed by the f40 group, any alternative is starting from the f40 formula. With a minimum funding guarantee, the maximum cut is a bit more than 15% between 2015 and 2020. Without one, schools in coastal towns, inner cities and remote locations (and all sorts of other surprising places) are at risk of 25% cuts. So even if the Government makes substantial changes to the f40 formula, the results are likely to be similar to these between now and 2020." I'm glad you say you will pay a positive role in the forthcoming consultation. Perhaps you could be as specific as the NUT about what you have in mind? Nick |