Extracts from Westminster Hall debate on the National Funding Formula: Social Mobility - May 22
Wednesday, 23 May 2018 08:49
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields) (Lab):...Children should never
be denied the same opportunities in life just because of the place
they were born. Yet in the north, two to three-year-olds are less
likely than their London counterparts to reach the expected
standard of development when starting school, and the National
Education Union has said schools in my part of the world—the
north-east—face the biggest cuts, with one school due to lose
nearly £8,000 per pupil. Success in...Request free trial
Mrs (South Shields)
(Lab):...Children should never be denied the same
opportunities in life just because of the place they were born. Yet
in the north, two to three-year-olds are less likely than their
London counterparts to reach the expected standard of development
when starting school, and the National Education Union has
said schools in my part of the world—the north-east—face the
biggest cuts, with one school due to lose nearly £8,000 per pupil.
Success in life should not be the result of a postcode lottery, but
under this Government it is...
...The Minister is talking about fairness and equity in the
system, but what does he say to a school in the north-east that,
according to the National Education Union, is set to lose
£8,000 per pupil? How is that fair?
The Minister for School Standards (Nick Gibb):
What the NEU is doing with its school cuts campaign is misleading.
It is taking the cost pressures that we have acknowledged and
telling the public that those are funding cuts. I have been clear
that no school has had a funding cut. School funding went up in
real terms per pupil in the last Parliament, and that increase has
been maintained in real terms. The NEU is talking about cost
pressures that have had to be absorbed, not just by the school
system but by other parts of the public sector and the private
sector. The hon. Lady will know that once the national funding
formula is fully implemented, funding in South Tyneside will
increase by 4.5%, which is equal to £3.9 million more going into
schools in that area.
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