DAPH & DASH Update newsletter: Worth Less? Campaign Funding Update

Dear colleagues

Worth Less? funding update - November 2018

Message from Jules White, Tanbridge House School

We are focusing on £500m emergency SEND / HNB funding. This will help some of our most disadvantaged families and reduce the impact on school budgets if HNB transfers are stopped - read Half a billion shortfall in school SEND funding 'crisis'.

Worth Less? wrote to 30 prominent (mainly Conservative) MPs requesting cross party support for emergency funding. Currently we have 6 replies and 6 yeses. Oliver Letwin, Steve Brine, Sarah Wollaston, Julian Lewis (all Con), James Frith (Lab), Norman Lamb (Lib Dem). 

Read also:-

• L E T T E R  dated 28.11.18 to Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP, Secretary of State for Education
• L E T T E R  dated 28.11.18 to Lord Agnew, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System

We are collaborating and receiving great support from parent groups, professional associations, Heads RT, F40 and SSAT. (Nick Wergan is speaking for Worth Less? at the SSAT Conference on 5 December).

Further reading and resources:

TES link: Schools to receive more cash after DfE admits ‘double-counting’ pupils.

Education - where the money is spent and the case for improvement (includes media links to DfE costs).

Keep up to date with the campaign on Twitter @WorthLessWS.

Thank you for your continued support.