Conservative proposals see more Cheadle schools facing cuts

by Lib Dem Team on 23 March, 2017

Conservative proposals to change school funding will see half the schools in Cheadle constituency losing funding next year. Analysis by the Education Policy Institute suggests all schools will lose out over the next three years.
The Education Policy Institute believes that in just three years:

  • Every school in England will see a real-terms funding cut
  • Up to half of primary schools and around half of secondary schools will be faced with significant real cuts in funding per pupil of between 6 and 11 per cent by 2019-20;
  • This amounts to an average real terms loss of £74,000 per primary school and £291,000 per secondary school.
  • This equates to, on average, the loss of almost 2 teachers across all primary schools and 6 teachers across all secondary schools.

In our local area, The Kingsway School is set to lose over £30,000 in funding from next year, with primary schools seeing small increases. The EPI figures suggest that all our schools will be losers by 2020.

“This is another broken promise from the Conservatives,” said Cllr Iain Roberts. “They were elected in 2015 on a manifesto commitment to increase school funding, but the figures clearly show that money is going to be cut by 2020 and schools will be losing teachers as a result.”

Here are the Government estimates for what the changes will mean next year. With inflation running at well over 2% after the Brexit vote, six of the seven schools would see real-term cuts under these proposals.

   15 Comments

15 Responses

  1. Bruce says:

    If you were to reverse any cuts where would you get the funds from?

    • Lib Dem Team says:

      The Lib Dems were very clear that we wouldn’t be wasting billions of pounds on Brexit. Have a look at how much the Brexit department is costing the taxpayer, and consider what we could do if all that wasted money was put into schools or the NHS.

      • Bruce says:

        Iain – billions – oh come on now – your wild accusations are getting more apocalyptic by the day – smacks of desperation.

        What about the millions the LibDems wasted wasted on your alternative vote referendum?

      • Phil Johnson says:

        The “taxpayer” voted for brexit. The government is obeying the democratic vote.

        • Frederick Kenny says:

          I think they are obeying the very narrow democratic vote for Brexit rather too enthusiastically – Hard Brexit who knew about it prior to the referendum – who voted for that?

          Unfortunately May has changed her mind and is now a hard Brexiter – David Davis (who said prior to 23/6/16 that we would have a trade deal with full single market access easily by Xmas 2016) as our chief negotiator could reasonable be described as an aggressive head banger!

          What a mess.

  2. Alan says:

    Increased tax take from those most able to pay by closing many of the obvious tax avoidance loop holes.

  3. Phil Johnson says:

    Bruce. Very easy to criticise when your party has as much chance of forming a government as the DUP.

    • Bruce says:

      Phil – what do you mean ‘my party’? Just because I question LibDem propaganda DOES NOT mean I support any particular party.

      • Phil Johnson says:

        Bruce. When I said “party” I was referring to the LibDems, not your party. Sorry for the confusion.

        • Bruce says:

          Phil – no problem. The next election in 2020 – assuming there is not one before – then it will be the most unpredictable for years with so many issues not necessarily following old party lines.
          One of the reasons we are in this predicament is, in my view, down to the election of Ed Milliband. Had his brother prevailed, who was a more middle-of-the-road politician to many voters, Labour would have not have lost so many seats.
          We need – the country needs – a strong Labour party.
          Cannot see it at the moment.

  4. Roy says:

    I don’t see a shortage of funding for Schools when these same Schools can afford to pay Head teachers in excess of £100,000 pounds and employ numourous back room staff.
    What is the justification for these high salaries, it’s the Teachers that teach, we need Teachers not high earning Heads

  5. Alan says:

    Many of these heads earning big salaries are heads of free schools or academies where the government has diverted funds from state education into these trophy ideological establishments.
    Are we still all in it together or do we believe Mrs May when she say she’s working for everyone?

  6. Roy says:

    John in response to your question of how much should Head Teachers earn ,
    HeadTeachers that also Teach for at least 50% of the working day 20% more than a full time Teacher,
    Head Teachers that do no Teaching need not be ex Teachers and as such should earn no more than 5% more than the Teaching staff.
    You probably won’t agree with my estimate but if my pay scale was adopted there would be major savings which could be used to pay for more Teachers and teaching materials.

    • John Hartley says:

      Unfortunately the grades in educational establishments arent as straight forward as “teachers” and “headteachers”. I used to work at a college which would have had a similar operation to, say, a decent sized secondary school. There were at least two grades of lecturers, department heads and a deputy principal, before you got to the boss. Each, of course, getting paid more than the grade below them because of the management responsibilities. These days, I suspect there are few headteachers actually teaching – the changes to how schools are run actually puts much more workload and responsibility on them than previous, when things could be expected to be run directly by staff at the local council.

      By the by, I was the college administration manager – me and my team being the so-called backroom staff. I got paid less than the lowest paid teacher, in spite of my professional qualifications in my field probably being at a higher educational level than the teacher’s. It’s how it works in the public sector – the backroom staff get paid bobbins, relatively speaking. It was the same in my last job in the probation service.

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