Halt the crisis in UK education by increasing school budgets in real terms

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

You may have read that funding in education is at record levels, because there are more children in the education system than before. Schools have had real-terms budget reductions because of the ‘flat cash settlement’ creating a 10% cut in real terms. While Pensions, NI and staff costs have gone up.

Schools have already been forced to make cuts and, without change will make further cuts including:
 Increase class sizes/reduce the number of teachers
 Staff teaching outside of their specialism
 Cut the number of courses
 Reduce curriculum time for courses
 Cut extra-curricular
 Reduce admin, teacher training & pastoral care
 Reduce the support staff to work with children with SEN
 Remove counselling support
Reductions in Health and Social Care, we are being asked to do more with less

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Increase funding for schools

Timeline

23 Mar 2019	Petition opened for signatures
3 Apr 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 3 Apr 2019

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