Next Labour government will reverse the Conservatives' cuts to school funding - Rayner

Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, responding to the Department for Education statement on a £7.7 million curriculum fund, said:

“Once again this Government believes that these small initiatives are enough to reverse the damage they are doing to our schools.

“This funding will do nothing to change the fact that £2.7 billion has been cut from the budgets of England’s schools since 2015, and that teacher recruitment targets have been missed for the fifth year in a row. Until this Government gets the basics right they will never be able to deliver the education that every child deserves.

“The next Labour government will reverse the Conservatives’ cuts to school funding, protect funding in real terms, and end the public sector pay cap to give our teachers the pay rise they deserve.”