Where is the state education going to end with all the cuts ?

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What's going to happen with the state education in the UK with all the funding cuts.?

A teacher friend told me her school already reduced one hour on Fridays to save money. Another friend said her son have his sport club stopped due to funding; hi is secondary school.

It is very sad this country is going backwards.

Boneyback
I'm an internal controls auditor.
My job is all about spreading best practice in the public sector.
The way Education and Health have been carved up for privatisation has resulten in controls excellensce sinking to the bottom of the priorities pile
and box ticking for Ofsted and league tables rising to the top

Primary schools have no staff with a real understanding of budgeting and financial management
and the Audit Commission no longer goes in and gives them personalised reports

Ta1kinPeece

I defer to your greater knowledge (not sarcasm). As I can only talk about where I work.

When I was a finance governor in a primary school, the lack of understanding made me weep.

The biggest issue is that in LEA schools there is this obsession with matching spending back to budget.
So if the spending is out of kilter, they alter the budget.
So at the end of the year they go "yippee, we are within 2% of budget"
but if you compared their spending with the original budget they are miles out.
Therefore they are unable to learn and prioritise.

In the old days (when I worked for the AC) every school got visited about every ten years, but every LEA got a stack of visits per year and then the AC would do a "pan-LEA" report which helped to spread good practice.

That all stopped when nice Mr Brown decided that "lighter touch" auditing was the way to go
yup, nuLabour are squarely to blame for a lot of it, the Tories just compounded the errors

So schools carried on doing what worked last time they were audited

Hence the heaps of money wasted on interactive white boards, brain training, kinaesthtic bilge etc etc ad nauseam
there is no group with any clout encouraging excellence
just folks wanting to cash in ....