A total of £2.5 billion has been allocated for schools for 2018/19, a rise of 0.9 per cent on last year. But how much each school gets per pupil depends on where they live.
Those in Powys will get the most, with £6,456 allocated per pupil compared to the lowest, £5,107 in the Vale of Glamorgan. That is a gap of £1,349.
Earlier this year the leader of the Vale of Glamorgan Council and the chair of the Schools’ Budget Forum jointly wrote to education secretary, Kirsty Williams, and all parents in the Vale highlighting concerns about what they described as “chronic underfunding” of education in the county.
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