Dismore slams Tory plans to slash Barnet and Camden schools funding
Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has warned the Government they must rethink plans to slash funding for schools and pupils in Barnet and Camden, or risk abandoning the gains made in the last decade.
Under the Government’s new ‘fairer funding’ plans, Barnet and Camden could lose £44 million from its schools budgets while cash is redistributed to other parts of the country. The reduction in funding could see schools struggle to maintain standards or recruit the most talented teachers
Labour’s London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore, said:
“The London Challenge, put in place by the last Labour Government, saw huge improvements made in Barnet and Camden secondary schools since the early 2000s, leaving the boroughs’ secondaries among the best in the country.
“We should be celebrating and building on that success, but instead the Tory Government seems determined to return us to the days when sink schools were a feature of many of the poorest parts of London.
“Schools are the platform for a child’s ambitions, but moves to strip away much of their funding for reallocation elsewhere in the country will further dent the opportunities they have to succeed.”
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Notes to editors:
Schools block funding before recoupment | |||||
Unit of funding £ per pupil | Pupil numbers (headcount) | Schools block £million | Change in funding to equal national average
£million |
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ENGLAND | 4612.112 | 6800683 | 31365.51 | 0 | |
City of London | 8587.04 | 201 | 1.725995 | -0.798960517 | |
Tower Hamlets | 7006.87 | 35221 | 246.789 | -84.34576962 | |
Hackney | 6672.54 | 24609 | 164.2045 | -50.70507132 | |
Lambeth | 6376.52 | 29330 | 187.0233 | -51.75008506 | |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 6240.96 | 13745 | 85.782 | -22.38851502 | |
Islington | 6221.79 | 19667 | 122.3639 | -31.65753616 | |
Camden | 6197.78 | 17632 | 109.2793 | -27.95849722 | |
Newham | 6124.75 | 49407 | 302.6055 | -74.734903 | |
Southwark | 6116.28 | 28683 | 175.4333 | -43.1440492 | |
Greenwich | 5998.19 | 31882 | 191.2343 | -44.19093708 | |
Lewisham | 5963.977 | 34621 | 206.4789 | -46.80292024 | |
Haringey | 5870.93 | 31156 | 182.9147 | -39.21973193 | |
Kensington and Chelsea | 5866.4 | 9660 | 56.66942 | -12.11642156 | |
Westminster | 5864.09 | 15426 | 90.45945 | -19.3130118 | |
Barking and Dagenham | 5575.36 | 34244 | 190.9226 | -32.98546266 | |
Wandsworth | 5573.89 | 24599 | 137.1121 | -23.65877569 | |
Brent | 5349.9 | 38437 | 205.6341 | -28.35835528 | |
Ealing | 5288.96 | 41856 | 221.3747 | -28.33014763 | |
Hounslow | 5203.39 | 33902 | 176.4053 | -20.04550493 | |
Waltham Forest | 5197.35 | 35669 | 185.3843 | -20.8748523 | |
Enfield | 5186.51 | 46960 | 243.5585 | -26.97372755 | |
Barnet | 4980.85 | 43754 | 217.9321 | -16.13376009 | |
Harrow | 4919.97 | 30090 | 148.0419 | -9.263445596 | |
Croydon | 4829.17 | 46026 | 222.2674 | -9.990309024 | |
Hillingdon | 4824.27 | 39601 | 191.0459 | -8.40166682 | |
Merton | 4824.26 | 22169 | 106.949 | -4.703107815 | |
Redbridge | 4798.7 | 43786 | 210.1159 | -8.169939805 | |
Havering | 4719.03 | 34948 | 164.9207 | -3.736568378 | |
Sutton | 4670.41 | 29201 | 136.3806 | -1.702358322 | |
Bexley | 4619.302 | 35661 | 164.7289 | -0.256388244 | |
Kingston upon Thames | 4594.4 | 20326 | 93.38577 | 0.360015209 | |
Bromley | 4545.22 | 41785 | 189.922 | 2.795084475 | |
Richmond upon Thames | 4499.38 | 22588 | 101.632 | 2.546391635 | |
1006842 | 5430.677 | -787.0092885 |
- According to Government figures, the unit cost of a teacher is £50,700:http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm130617/text/130617w0001.htm#130617w0001.htm_wqn17
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- Andrew Dismore AM is the London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden.