Schools are enacting fewer savings identified by government cost cutters, prompting warnings “no amount of advice” can balance shrinking budgets.
Schools Week analysis reveals leaders made, on average, £10,100 of reductions after they were visited by school resource management advisers (SRMAs) last year.
That compares to nearly £19,000 of savings headteachers implemented, on average, in the three years between 2018 and 2021, backing up concerns schools are running out of financial wiggle room.
“You cannot advise your way out of a funding crisis,” said Geoff Barton, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders.
