Widespread cuts to school budgets mean schools in the constituencies of education ministers will be £7.4 million poorer in the next financial year in real terms, new data suggests.
New data published by the National Education Union (NEU) on its school cuts website today reveals the scale of the real terms spending cuts schools are facing next year, as leaders warn that the majority of schools are now considering making “desperate cuts”, including teaching redundancies.
In a move that will likely provoke outrage among parents ahead of the chancellor’s autumn statement on November 17, the newly relaunched school cuts website now predicts that 90 per cent of schools will have lower per pupil funding in real terms in 2023-24, compared to the current financial year.
