Russell Hobby, the NAHT’s general secretary for the past seven years, said school leaders could be called upon to take industrial action over “massive cuts” which would harm standards of education.
He told delegates on the final day of the union’s annual conference in Telford that it was not the proposed new National Funding Formula that was the problem, but the amount of money the government was making available for state schools.
He mocked the Department for Education’s advice to schools to seek new deals on photocopiers to save money. “You can’t find
£3 billion by renegotiating a few photocopier contracts,” he said. “The bulk of education spending is on people. These cuts will mean cuts to staffing.
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