Funding crisis leaves schools on ‘brink of financial collapse’, says heads
A major survey, as seen and reported on by TES, reveals that two-thirds of secondary head teachers in the East of England believe that they of not have the sufficient funds necessary to ‘deliver high quality education’ over the next year.
The research covered secondary schools in Essex, Hertfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, and found that 69 per cent of schools viewed their 2015-16 financial situation as ‘serious’ or worse.
Richard Thomas, the executive director of secondary headteacher associations in Essex and Suffolk and organiser of the surveys, said that post-16 funding for secondary schools had been slashed by up to a fifth since 2010.
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