Election 2024

Teacher supply crisis cuts through to wider public, poll suggests

Labour's 6,500 teachers pledge is top schools policy among voters, with 4 in 10 saying schools have got worse...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Tory funding pledge could be ‘biggest cut in 50 years’, says IfS

Think tank says Sunak’s per-pupil funding ‘protection’ actually works out as a 6% reduction and would lead to job...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Conservatives manifesto 2024: All the schools policies

13 new policies include protecting school spending in real-terms and mandating phone bans guidance and PE hours

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Lib Dems manifesto 2024: All the schools policies

26 pledges include above-inflation school funding boosts, putting arts subjects in the EBacc and upping capital funding by £1.9bn

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Labour will convert ‘spare’ primary classrooms into 3,334 nurseries

Policy would cost around £140 million and create 100,000 childcare places, party says

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

Two in three special schools face real-terms cuts, unions warn

Special schools' spending power is £419 million lower than it was in 2010

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Alternative provision

Alternative provision placements soar to pre-pandemic levels

New government statistics also show a rise in pupils places in AP because of mental health needs or behaviour...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Next government faces ‘painful’ school funding choices – IfS

Making savings from falling rolls will be 'easier said than done', warns think tank

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

School funding top of teachers’ election priority list

'Every day we hear from school leaders about how they are struggling to manage'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker