Education minister Kirsty Williams has launched a review of how total spending “varies across schools” following a recommendation from the Assembly’s Children, Young People and Education Committee.
But, while welcoming the review, teaching unions are concerned about the financial strain that schools are operating under.
“Schools cannot wait for the report to emerge before more funding is allocated for school budgets,” Rob Williams, director of the National Association of Head Teachers Cymru said. “We are calling upon the Welsh government to invest more money in education immediately.”
He said it must be proven that funding allocated at local consortia and council level has as much positive impacts for pupils as it would if it were allocated directly to schools: “School leaders still believe that a change to the formulae used to calculate school budgets, both at Welsh government level and local authority level, is required. This, too, should be a focus for the review.”
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