The Welsh Government is doing all it can to fund schools, Education Minister Jeremy Miles insisted today as teachers face redundancy and heads warn subjects will have to go amid cuts Mr Miles said the Welsh Government was “finding as many ways as it could” to put extra cash into schools, but admitted they faced “very real pressures”.
Teachers and support staff in local education authorities including Cardiff and Rhondda Cynon Taf have been told their jobs are at risk amid warnings that education across Wales will be “diminished” without funding to match rising costs.
Funds to cover the recent teachers' pay award has been passed to all 22 local education authorities and they have “committed” to passing that on to schools, Mr Miles confirmed.
But there remains concern from school governors and the Nasuwt teaching union that that money will not filter down in all cases. They say questions remain over how schools will shoulder funding for the pay awards in future years, now the bar has been set higher.
School governors in the Vale of Glamorgan have said schools there will have to foot the bill for this year’s pay award, despite promises they won’t. Nasuwt official for y Neil Butler has claimed that redundancy notices issued to teachers in Rhondda Cynon Taf are partly a result of lack of funds promised for the pay award.
