Message from Matthew Shanks, DASH Co-Ordinator and Paul Walker, DAPH Chair
Dear All,
On Tuesday 14th November, Matthew Shanks
travelled to London to deliver a letter (see below) to Philip Hammond on your
behalf along with headteachers from 25 local authorities. Please do not give up
on this campaign.
Below
are a couple of salient points to share with press if you are contacted.
Even if your school
does not lose as a result of the latest Fair Funding round the government have
still cut education spending. The local authority still needs to balance high
needs spending as a result of these cuts and other changes. Where do you think
this money will come from?
Please, if you can,
make your parents aware of this issue.
Thank you for all the
messages of support you have sent. Now is not the time to give in.
Best wishes,
Matthew Shanks - On
behalf of DASH (Devon Association of Secondary Headteachers)
l e t t e r to Philip Hammond
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As Devon Heads we are standing together on the issue of school
funding.
Last year secondary
schools across Devon released or made redundant over 90 teaching assistants and
50 teachers.
Option choices were
reduced at GCSE as schools reduced information technology spending by over a
million pounds.
Additionally, schools
across Devon cut a number of enrichment courses and support with transport.
The £1.3 billion
announced by the government as an increase in spending for schools is nothing
of the kind. Originally funding between 2015-20 was to be cut by £3 billion
according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Now school funding is only being
cut by £1.7 billion. This is not good enough and does not represent fair
funding.
A child in Devon does not receive the same for
their education from this government as children in other parts of the country.
The letter to Mr Hammond was to raise this important point once again. Parents
are not happy with the lack of funding being put into their children’s schools;
other countries invest in education to make them great, not cut it.
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