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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

Join us in calling for the Welsh government to revise the draft budget proposals for 2020/21

NAHT Cymru has launched a petition to Welsh government calling for them to re-think the draft budget for 2020-21. As it stands, the current draft does nothing to repair the damage caused by years of austerity.  

Budget ‘highlights’ include £25m for the new curriculum, which is all well and good, but when school staffing is at an all-time low, questions have to be raised on how deliverable the new framework is.

£15m on staff training will not go far enough to support the workforce who will need training to support the new curriculum. £8m additional funding for ALN, but with more than 120,000 children and young people registered having additional learning needs, £8m equates to roughly £66 additional funding per child. 

Finance minister Rebecca Evans AM gave a statement on the draft budget last month, and AMs had their first opportunity to raise questions on that budget. 

The scrutiny process is ongoing, but now is the time to act and put pressure on AMs to deliver more funding for our schools. 

We are asking you as school leaders, your staff, parents, friends and relatives to join us and sign this online petition and back our pleas for further funding.

Please feel free to share this petition on social media to try and gather as much support as possible.

Sign the petition

 

 

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First published 10 February 2020

First published 10 February 2020
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