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Will the Autumn Budget finally fund education?

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After plenty of warm words from politicians and with the Autumn Budget looming, Daniel Kebede pleads with the government to put its money where its mouth is on education
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This government says that it values teachers, but what price will they put on education?

That is the question at the centre of the National Education Union’s thinking right now. Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out her Autumn Budget on October 30 and has dropped heavy hints that tough choices will have to be made on public spending.

Fourteen years of deliberate underfunding of our schools and colleges has left our education system hanging on by a thread. Investment is needed and needed urgently.

I spent most of my professional life as a teacher dealing with the consequences of austerity politics. I spent the first year of my term as general secretary battling a Conservative government unwilling to do anything for schools in its last two Budgets.

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