What will the government funding pledges – announced earlier this term – mean for your secondary school? Funding specialist Julia Harnden looks at the figures

For those of us whose daily life revolves around funding policy, government spending reviews have been an anchor in an otherwise very stormy sea.

Every few years the government undertakes a review of public sector spending and sets expenditure limits for the government departments that oversee our public services.

Governments determine the period of time that such a review will cover, but often it is three or even five years. The current review period ran from 2015 and finishes at the end of March 2020.

So while uncertainty around Brexit, and whether or not austerity is over, has been bewildering at best, we have known that decisions about education spending (along with the rest of the public sector) from April 2020 onwards would have to be announced this year – by autumn at the latest.

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