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Education’s funding crisis will ‘come home to roost’ in 2016/17

Governance and management School funding and finance Government policy
A debate should be had about whether a part of schools’ deprivation funding, including the Pupil Premium, should be triggered by low prior achievement as well as low family income.

Pupil Premium funding should also be going automatically to schools, rather than schools having to chase parents to fill in the relevant forms.

The comments have come from Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT).

In his latest blog post, Mr Hobby warns that 2016/17 will be the year when the real-terms cuts to school budgets, increasing costs, and the increasing cost of picking up the pieces of wider government austerity will “come home to roost”.

He points particularly to employer National Insurance and pension contributions going up by more than five per cent from this year onwards.

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