The fact that schools are feeling the strain won’t come as a surprise to many people. But quite how much of a strain?
That’s the question we answer in our new performance tracker report, produced with CIPFA.
It assesses the state of nine public services including schools, looking at demands on the service, the funding and staffing picture, and the impact that Covid has had.
On staffing, we entered the pandemic having had recruitment and retention problems for much of the previous decade.
