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Small schools should keep meals subsidy until national funding formula comes in

After a leaked report revealed the DfE knew small schools needed extra funds to provide free meals – yet still ended their subsidy – Barbara Taylor issues a fair-funding challenge to government Following a successful initiative giving free fruit to infants, the concept of free infant school meals, providing healthy, nourishing food at lunchtime, was […]

Schools community welcomes early years funding overhaul

School funding experts have broadly welcomed government proposals to overhaul early years funding and invest an extra £1 billion so providers can deliver the Conservative party’s manifesto pledge for 30-hour free childcare. The Department for Education yesterday launched a consultation over plans to fund early years providers by a national funding formula – with providers […]

School leaders warn of more redundancies in wake of funding formula delay

Schools face making more redundancies and multi-academy trusts will be hampered from taking over struggling schools, education leaders have told Schools Week, as the implications of the government’s decision to delay the national funding formula surface. Justine Greening announced today that plans to overhaul school funding into a national formula, which the government says will […]

National funding formula delayed to 2018

The implementation of the new national funding formula has been pushed back to 2018-19, Justine Greening has announced. The new education secretary has confirmed today that the government is no longer intending to put the policy in place in 2017-18, despite claims from ministers as recently as Tuesday that they remained committed to the original […]

Justine Greening ‘committed’ to delivering fair funding formula from 2017, despite delay concerns

The government has confirmed today it is still aiming to fund schools under a new national funding formula from 2017, indicating for the first time the new education secretary Justine Greening’s appetite to plough ahead with the controversial funding overhaul as planned. Edward Timpson (pictured above), the newly-reappointed children’s minister, has said today the government […]

Justine Greening commits to national funding formula but is quiet on more cash for schools

The new education secretary Justine Greening appears to have committed to introducing a new national fair funding formula today, although refused to pledge more cash for schools. Responding to concerns of falling school funding on The Andrew Marr Show this morning, Greening said: “The underlying schools budget is seeing a real terms increase. “We are reviewing and […]

What are the big decisions Justine Greening must make as education secretary?

A new education secretary, Justine Greening, has been appointed. So, what now? Natalie Perera describes what awaits at the department for education. History suggests that a new Education Secretary will almost certainly want to make her mark on the Department, the sector, and the profession. Each has come with their own unique agenda for reform; […]

Education committee chair seeks answers over national funding formula consultation “delay”

The government has admitted it is not yet in a position to release details of its first consultation on the national fair funding formula – fuelling more concerns that its implementation in schools will be delayed. Neil Carmichael, chair of the House of Commons education committee, has written to childcare minister Sam Gyimah to outline “regrets” the […]

National funding formula warning from school leaders

School headteachers and business managers have joined forces to express their fears and aspirations about plans for a new national funding formula. The government is currently consulting on a new funding system for schools after years of campaigning by politicians and school leaders, who claim the huge variation in per-pupil funding between different areas of […]