Petition · past parliament
Fully fund the ever-increasing costs of running schools every year
Rejected
13 signatures
What the petition asks
Cambridgeshire schools are under severe financial owing to salary and pension increases, inflation, the Apprenticeship Levy, and growing recruitment and retention costs.
Impacts include increasing class sizes, narrowing of the curriculum, a smaller workforce and increased pressures on staff.
Impacts include increasing class sizes, narrowing of the curriculum, a smaller workforce and increased pressures on staff.
Funding for children with additional needs, and for nurseries and pre-schools is also severely stretched. Their outcomes need to improve. Additional funding is required.
Small, mainly rural schools have been seriously disadvantaged by setting the lump sum in the National Funding Formula at £110,000. This needs to be increased to secure the financial viability of small schools which are at the heart of the local community.
The fundamental objective is fair funding for all the county's schools.
Small, mainly rural schools have been seriously disadvantaged by setting the lump sum in the National Funding Formula at £110,000. This needs to be increased to secure the financial viability of small schools which are at the heart of the local community.
The fundamental objective is fair funding for all the county's schools.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 3 Jul 2018 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 9 Jul 2018 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
13
Status
Rejected
Rejected
9 Jul 2018
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