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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

Write to your MP: maintained nursery school funding

Maintained nursery schools play a vitally important role in our education system. They offer the highest quality early education and care, and they disproportionately support children from deprived backgrounds and those with SEND. They also work as teaching schools, supporting teacher training and helping neighbouring early years provision to improve. 

Just prior to the covid-19 lockdown, the government committed to the long-term future funding of maintained nursery schools, but we were extremely concerned to hear that despite this, some local authorities launched reviews that could ultimately lead to the closure of these schools. 

Please write to your MP using the template below to urge them to call on the government to do the following:  

  • Immediately confirm supplementary funding for 2021-22 (and especially summer term 2021) and ensure this funding is increased in line with inflation to bring the value back to the real terms value in 2016-17
  • Provide additional resources and support with covid-19 costs
  • Commit to reviewing the early years funding formula as soon as possible and by 2021 at the latest.  

 

First published 29 June 2020

First published 29 June 2020
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