The leader of the Vale of Glamorgan council has taken the bold step to urge parents to take their fight for more money to the education secretary and claims that the budgets are based on data which is 30-years-old and out-of-date.
The local authority, which borders Cardiff, currently receives the lowest amount per-pupil for education of all 22 local authorities in Wales and council leader John Thomas argues that the gap is growing.
Mr Thomas and the area’s leading headteacher, Dr Vince Brown, have penned a joint letter to all parents urging them to join a fight against “chronic underfunding”.
They want parents to email Wales’s education secretary Kirsty Williams to ask why the Vale receives £606 less per-pupil than the Welsh average and £1,360 less per-pupil than the highest funded local authority.
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