Funding
The latest news and analysis on funding received by local authority and academy schools in the UK, including government spending, advice on budgeting and more
Wednesday
19th Jun 2024
Schools ‘in the dark’ over budgets after manifesto pledges
None of the main parties’ election manifestos offer ‘significant extra levels of core funding to help schools’ meet their financial challenges, IFS warns
![Schools face £3.5bn cut under main party election pledges](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-06/election-cuts.jpg?itok=dpEGlnXh)
PFI contracts must be tackled to ease funding woes
The next government should take action over expensive private finance initiative contracts costing schools millions, writes this headteacher
![PFI contracts must be tackled to ease funding woes](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-06/school%20funding.jpg?itok=d3BAGdR4)
DfE ‘robs’ schools of £1.9bn for crumbling buildings, say unions
School Cuts coalition calculates schools could have an extra £36,000 each on average if the DfE distributed unspent capital funds
![DfE ‘robs’ schools of £1.9bn for crumbling schools](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-06/crumbling%20building.jpg?itok=lAYUlXSH)
Thursday
13th Jun 2024
Weekly round-up: The education battle lines are drawn
Tes’ essential education news round-up includes the three main political parties setting out their policies for schools ahead of next month’s election
![Round, up](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-06/Round-up_0.jpg?itok=A_kgFdwS)
Funding crisis ‘will increase class sizes’ in most schools
One head in an ASCL poll warns that the only thing left to cut is teaching staff after ‘paring everything back to the bone’
![Packed suitcase](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-06/Packed-classroom.jpg?itok=Ff4oKaCg)
Monday
10th Jun 2024
Real-terms cuts to schools in Wales laid bare by new data
Education bodies and unions collectively call for all political parties to commit to a plan to invest the funding needed to eradicate all school cuts
![Real-terms cuts to schools in Wales laid bare by new data](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-06/Real-terms-cuts.jpg?itok=4WYidwK9)
Schools under ‘severe strain’, ASCL warns party leaders
Spending money on managing SEND deficits rather than meeting children’s needs is a situation ‘close to madness’, says the union
![Schools under ‘severe strain’ from funding and teacher shortage, party leaders told](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-06/SEND%20funding2.jpg?itok=ipsoQDql)
Friday
7th Jun 2024
Most special schools have ‘less funding than in 2010’
Special schools have suffered a £419 million real-terms cut in spending power over 14 years, unions warn
![Most special schools have ‘less funding than in 2010](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-06/counting%20coins.jpg?itok=up0BRTay)
EIS: School violence reduction ‘wishful thinking’ without extra money
Using class-contact reduction for ‘collegiate time’ is another ‘absolute red line’, says union chief Andrea Bradley, who also calls on Scottish government to ‘come clean’ on teacher numbers
![Behaviour plan 'wishful thinking' without extra money, says EIS chief](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-06/Wishful-thinking.jpg?itok=vMWcNkTT)