Message from Paul Walker, DAPH Chair
and
Matthew Shanks, DASH Co-Ordinator
Dear
all
Further to yesterday's DAPH Update newsletter regarding the joint letter funding formula, the
coverage is likely to be significant from lunchtime today. BBC
news, World at One, with Sky and C4 to follow.
If you haven't already done so, please
could we ask you that you send a personalised copy to your local MP urgently, with inserts. Please
do speak out to the media in your localities - with unity with have a
chance. The key messages, as you know, are:
- We
need a new formula urgently - abandonment is not an option
- The
formula must, however, not cap how much low funded schools get if it stops
adequate funding
- The
DfE must stop wasting money on projects / expansions that don't deal with
the key issue of the fundamental need to give enough basic funding to all
schools
- A
formula that either reduces funding for low funded schools or gives just a
little to some schools and then takes away massive amounts in unfunded costs is
not acceptable
An
urgent rethink is required.
With
thanks again to Jules White, Head
Teacher at Tanbridge
House School who began this campaign.
Best wishes,
Paul Walker (On behalf of DAPH) & Matthew
Shanks (On behalf of DASH)
*see links to L E T T E R T E M P L A T E and S T A T E M E N T
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