School funding has become a major issue that is underpinning many problems in education at the present time. Schools are being put under immense amounts of pressure simply to balance the books.
The impact of inflation, and extra costs such as higher employer National Insurance and pension contributions, means that the actual value of funding per-pupil in real-terms will fall by as much as eight per cent or more.
The difficulties with recruiting teachers are putting even more costs on schools – through advertising, introductory charges from agencies, and the higher starting salaries that candidates are seeking.
In a recent NUT survey of secondary teachers the scale of the problem was clear – 58 per cent of teachers said average class sizes are increasing in their school and 59 per cent said there were fewer resources and materials for pupils.
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