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IFS report shows school budgets will be pushed to breaking point, says NAHT

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Today (Friday 15 April) the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) publishes a report entitled ‘Long Run Trends in School Spending in England’. In it, the thinktank reports that current school spending per pupil across England will fall by at least 7% in real terms in the next five years.

Commenting on the report, Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT, says: “we welcome this detailed analysis from the IFS. This backs up what our members have been saying. With flat cash education spending at a time of rising costs, school budgets are being pushed to breaking point.

“On the wide discrepancy between local authorities on school spending, we hope the planned national funding formula will help remedy this. We have long campaigned to see funding go directly to schools, so welcome government plans to do just that. School leaders will hope the new formula will deliver funding in a fair and transparent way.”

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