Extract from End of Day Adjournment debate on School Funding: Greater London - Jan 31
Wednesday, 1 February 2017 08:18
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North) (Lab):...The pressures and
challenges that face London education are as great as ever. We have
problems of deprivation that are still acute, and problems of
churn. I appreciate very much that the Government have, for the
first time, introduced a churn or pupil mobility indicator into the
funding formula. I remember having an Adjournment on this very
topic 10 years ago, when I wanted a factor of mobility to be
brought into the funding formula for policing, for...Request free trial
Ms (Westminster North)
(Lab):...The pressures and challenges that face London
education are as great as ever. We have problems of deprivation
that are still acute, and problems of churn. I appreciate very much
that the Government have, for the first time, introduced a churn or
pupil mobility indicator into the funding formula. I remember
having an Adjournment on this very topic 10 years ago, when I
wanted a factor of mobility to be brought into the funding formula
for policing, for health and for education. I welcome the
introduction of the indicator, but none the less schools face
enormous pressure in some cases. I know of primary schools where
not a single child at key stage 2 was there at the completion of
the key stage 1 process. This is a very real difficulty for
schools. We know of the challenges of English as an additional
language and, critically, of the higher salary, building and other
operating costs that London schools have to face. Even my borough
of Westminster—the hon. Member for Hendon (Dr Offord), who was
a Westminster Councillor, will recognise
this—despite its reputation as the glittering centre of the capital
that people see with Oxford Street and, indeed, the Palace of
Westminster and so forth, has the seventh highest child poverty in
the whole country....
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