Education: Public Funding Debate

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Angela Eagle

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Education: Public Funding

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Feltham Young Offender Institution
Tuesday 4th July 2017

(7 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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We will do our best to convey the message that no school will lose funding under the new national funding formula, and I will rely on my hon. Friend to do the same in his constituency.

Angela Eagle Portrait Ms Angela Eagle (Wallasey) (Lab)
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Yesterday, parents of pupils at the Kingsway Academy received a text message referring them to the website of the Northern Schools Trust, where they were told that their school would be closing. The Northern Schools Trust says that the school is not financially viable. Its sudden closure leaves a black hole of a quarter of a million pounds in the local authority’s financing, and there is great disruption across the area. Is that any way to run a school system?

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I will look into the specific case that the hon. Lady has raised. Schools have to consult before any closure occurs, and there is a process that schools have to go through. I will look at the matter, and I am very happy to meet the hon. Lady to discuss it.

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