For the second time this year, a school leader has raised the real possibility of cutting the school week because of the funding crisis in education. It is frightening to think that we are facing such drastic cost-saving measures.
It is a clear sign that the time has come to stop pretending that education is being properly funded.
The Department for Education (DfE) persists in claiming that it has protected the schools budget. Only a very generous or naïve interpretation of the figures can justify this claim.
The truth is that the overall schools budget does not provide for funding per-pupil to increase with inflation (as was starkly confirmed by the National Audit Office in its recent analysis: DfE demands £3bn in savings as financial pressures mount, SecEd, January 2017: http://bit.ly/2lMdB0o).
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