The government says that education unions have been ‘misleading’ the public when it comes to school funding – but nothing could be further from the truth…

Hundreds of teachers and school leaders gathered in Westminster last week to lobby the government on school funding.

Their presence provoked Nick Gibb, the schools minister, to accuse unions of being fundamentally “misleading”.

Nothing could be further from the truth, as school leaders, struggling to balance their books know to their cost. The government’s mantra – that more money is going into schools than ever before – is easily explained by another fact: there are more pupils in school than ever before. And, when rising cost pressures are taken into account, there is a £2.8 billion deficit since 2015 which the government expects schools to fill.

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