Schools may not know for several months how they will be hit, say head teachers’ leaders Schools in England are to get a real-terms increase in funding, the chancellor George Osborne has said.
The schools budget will rise from £35bn to £39bn for the next four years, he told MPs.
Educational Maintenance Grants – paid to encourage 16-to-19 year-olds to stay in school and training – are to be “replaced”.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills – is to be cut by 7.1%.
Details just emerging from the Department for Education say while the schools budget will increase, there will be a 3% cut in the department’s “resource spending”.
The Sure Start scheme, which provides centres and services to families of young children, will continue.
It will be protected “in cash terms”, Mr Osborne said, and will focus on its original remit.
Mr Osborne announced there would be “personalised budgets” for “special educational needs”. Details were not given.
Councils in England have learned that they are facing an overall 7.1% cut in revenue.
Funds given to councils for schools will continue to be ring-fenced (will have to be spent on schools). Mr Osborne said the funds would be in the form of a “simplified schools grant”.
Education is devolved across the UK, but Mr Osborne said the funding mechanism for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland meant the “relative protection” of education would be passed on.
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