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Schools are at breaking point as funding is not keeping up with the expenditure schools face. The government’s funding commitment for schools is not adequate and equates to a real-terms cut in education spending. The situation is critical for schools, so NAHT is campaigning to:

Lobby the government to provide sufficient funding for the education of all pupils 

 

  • Support the School Cuts campaign
  • Lobby for provision of accessible and available health, social care and other therapeutic services to support pupils' educational progress and attainment
  • Lobby for sufficient funding for the High Needs block
  • Lobby for sufficient funding to support pupils with SEND in all mainstream schools
  • Lobby for more funding for early years education; including specific funding to stabilise and protect the maintained nursery school sector
  • Support the Raise the Rate campaign to ensure sufficient funding for students in sixth form / FE / KS5 education
  • Maximise the funding for pupil premium for schools through auto enrolment
  • Press the government to provide appropriate support to schools for financial planning and resource management
  • Develop a better understanding of the unique challenges facing small schools and lobby the government to ensure their long-term sustainability
  • Lobby government to introduce the hard funding formula

Lobby to ensure that schools have sufficient funds to provide a safe environment for pupils and staff

  • Press for the phased removal of asbestos from the school estate
  • Lobby the DfE to secure sufficient capital funding and restoration of the school estate where required
  • Press the government to ensure that health and safety regulations maintain the highest standard of safety within schools
  • Lobby the DfE to support members to effectively manage the school estate

‘Green carding’ your MP in five steps

On 24 October we will be taking part in a mass lobby of Parliament to call for the school funding crisis to be addressed in the upcoming Autumn Budget. We are asking MPs to put pressure on the Chancellor to invest in children and young people. This is your chance to tell your MP why education must be a priority in the upcoming budget and to communicate the impact the funding crisis is having in your school community.

Arrange a lobby meeting

There are two ways you can arrange a lobby meeting. Write to your MP here and arrange a meeting on the day or follow our five steps to ‘green carding’ on the day itself.      

  1. Go through the Cromwell Green entrance to parliament and pass through security (allow for this to take up to 20 minutes).
  2. Queue up at the information desk in the central lobby and you will need to collect and fill in a “green card.”
  3. Hand the green card to the information desk. The information desk will be able to let you know quite quickly if your MP is not at the House of Commons.
  4. If your MP is unavailable the fact that you have handed in a green card will mean that your MP will know you have requested a meeting and your MP will have to write to you in due course letting you know their views.
  5. If the information desk does manage to contact your MP be prepared to wait for a while.

A printable version of these steps can be found below. 

First published 03 January 2018

First published 03 January 2018
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