Budget pressures continue to build, with little sign of respite ahead. Sara Martin looks how schools have been creating opportunities in the local community and beyond to stretch and boost their budgets

New findings once again highlight that budget pressures are weighing heavy on the minds of secondary school leaders, with 53 per cent expecting this to be the biggest challenge on the horizon, according to The Key’s annual survey.

So how are schools responding? More than a quarter of secondary schools told our annual survey that they would need to make savings of more than eight per cent of their expected costs to balance their budgets in 2017/18.

For some schools that’s hundreds of thousands of pounds to find. While this may not come as a particular surprise in light of the volume of news coverage on the current funding situation, more surprising perhaps are the methods of income generation that schools are turning to.

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