With just days to go until the government publishes its Spring Budget, chancellor Philip Hammond has received a letter challenging him to act on school funding.
The last-ditch attempt to influence government policy has been made by the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and the National Governors’ Association (NGA).
The letter argues that the total size of the budget per-pupil in state schools is “not enough” and that the government has not protected pupil funding as it promised to do in the 2015 election campaign.
It adds: “Governing boards and school leaders are being forced to make impossible choices as a result of insufficient funding. They are doing their best to ‘make do’ but there are only so many financial efficiencies a school can find before reaching breaking point.
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