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Parliamentary briefing demands £700m school funding boost ahead of chancellor’s Spring Statement

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The School Cuts Coalition has held a Parliamentary briefing on the parlous state of school finances ahead of the Spring Statement later this month.
Cash crisis? The School Cuts Coalition estimates that increases in funding for 2025/26 will not be enough to cover rising costs for 76% of primary schools and 94% of secondary schools - Adobe Stock

The coalition’s analysis suggests that increases in funding for 2025/26 will not be enough to cover rising costs for a large majority of schools – including 76% of primary and 94% of secondary schools.

The campaign group forecasts that schools’ costs for 2025/26 will rise by 3.4% – including the government’s proposed unfunded 2.8% pay rise for teachers from September 2025.

At the same time, it calculates that mainstream school funding is currently set to increase by just 2.2%.

The calculations – which are set out on the campaign’s website (see methodology below) – suggest that every local authority will see a real-terms drop in per-pupil funding.

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