A useful app to know about local schools - shocked!

[BillysMum36]

I just looked at this and put in my postcode and am really shocked about more cuts to the schools my son is likely to go to.

My sister is a teacher and says there is almost nothing more than can be cut without endangering the children. Almost a £500+ cut in every school in our area!!

schoolcuts.org.uk/

Near me all the secondaries go up and the juniors and infants slightly down.

Every school in my area will be cut by the conservatives! At some schools - over £1000 per child That's scary!

I'm not a Tory by a long stretch, but I have real doubts about the answer on my DD's school. It is one that will gain from the NFF, yet the website says using NFF data the funding will go down.

Our schools are slightly up. However, what I suspect it doesn’t include is all the peripheral cuts like school transport which is a big issue in our area - all under a Conservative led council.

Our LA has gone up from the 6th lowest spending LA to the 15th lowest spending LA. It’s been down the bottom for decades. Budgets are tight but they’ve never been good. We now have no government grant at all. It’s a frugal LA. Yes it’s Conservative but we’ve never had the money that some LAs have! All our AWPUs are predicted to go up. Very well resourced LAs will go down but that doesn’t make a school dangerous. None of ours are! That’s over dramatic!

You can look at what each school spends it’s money on via the govt web site. It’s interesting how many tiny schools keep going where shed loads of money are spent on small classes and teaching costs are astronomic. If schools were rationalised and smaller ones merged, there would be more money because you would save on SLT costs. Schools need to get more creative!

Our funding can only reduce by 1.5% pa as we have a minimum funding guarantee so I’m querying some of these figures. I was also suggesting merging of primary schools but some secondaries should do this where they are geographically close.

Gosh!!! 1.5% per pupil AWPU!

Is this app run by one of the political parties by any chance?
I know all the different parties use social media sites like MN to try and influence people.

@SpruceTree No, it's not, and the IFS has verified that the data presented is accurate. Did you not see all the headteachers marching on Downing Street about all the cuts?

That site doesn't give the whole picture. Many schools self generate income though running wrap around care, preschools, letting their facilities etc. Government funding is just one income stream.

The site is quoting figures that they have calculated using their own methodology based on what the various political parties are saying that they will put into schools in the way of extra funding. How much you want to believe of the latest pronouncements on funding is up to individuals but it is does seem rather biased one way.
What I can say that is fact and real is that whilst this website says that my school is getting a theoretical £81000 cut in funding, the t formal papers at the meeting of my local schools forum indicate that for 2020-21 financial year, my school will receive £73,000 extra in funding from 2019-20. My preference is to believe and work on what I can see in writing in front of me, rather than theoretical figures that will probably never come into reality.

That's a labour developed site at a rough guess.

The Bots are getting very slightly subtler aren't they?

In my area the schools I know are similar to what admission says. They've been given an increase in funding, but according to this site it's going down considerably.
Interestingly, roughly the more "middle class" area they are the more Labour's apparently putting it up on this site. Oh except for the two areas which are very tight on the Labour vote. which apparently it's going up. Hmm!
And at a couple of schools they apparently don't have data-but it's marked with a big -£ sign. There's also at least 3 schools missing entirely.

Is funding going up but funding per pupil going down? or funding per pubil with inflation taken into account going down?

Interesting the OP only posts Labour propaganda on here

There is no inflation figure. LAs work out the AWPU based on their funds. Schools should have a minimum funding guarantee as I said above. This prevents catastrophic falls in income. Falling school rolls is a huge driver of school income. There is truth in the unpalatable situation that some DC have been resourced far more favourably than others. There have been changes to even this out. Some LAs near London will have higher staffing costs. Other schools will have considerable pp income. I would look at which LAs are near the bottom of the AWPU spend and worry about them. Bloated ones near the top could exist on less money like the middle or lower ranked ones. To some extent, this is what is happening.

That site doesn't give the whole picture. Many schools self generate income though running wrap around care, preschools, letting their facilities etc. Government funding is just one income stream.

Schools generally only do these things if they're desperate for more funding and it makes up a tiny proportion of their budget. Schools are meant to be funded by the government - imagining they can somehow be self supporting is ridiculous.

It's produced by the unions so i don't trust it.

The bots are producing some strong gusts today. I can see that this data isn’t right for my local school.

Nor mine.

The primaries around us all gain except with the Lib Dems!

Our local schools are up by 7%. That's fantastic. Thanks BillysMum for letting us know how the Conservative government is investing in our local schools! Great stuff!