Despite recent promises, the legacy of a Conservative government after 15 years in office looks set to be a real-terms decline in school funding. Pete Henshaw reports
Soaring inflation and “unexpectedly high cost pressures” for schools look set to end any hopes of funding being restored to 2010 levels.
The 2019 and 2021 Spending Reviews brought with them extra funding for the schools budget and an explicit government promise to restore real-terms funding to 2010 levels by 2024/25 – the end of the current Parliament.
