Teachers: Haringey

(asked on 1st March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of changes to school funding on (a) teacher numbers, (b) school standards, (c) pupil outcomes and (d) levels of youth crime in (i) Tottenham constituency and (ii) the Borough of Haringey.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 6th March 2017

As a result of our proposals for a national funding formula, schools in Tottenham constituency would see an overall 2.8% reduction in funding. Schools in the Borough of Haringey would see an overall 2.7% reduction in funding. Haringey’s allocation from the central school services block, which will provide local authorities with funding for services they offer to all pupils, including local education welfare services, would increase by over £360,000. London schools, including those in Haringey, will remain among the highest funded in the country under our proposals, with schools in inner London attracting 30% more funding per pupil than the national average.

We are supporting schools to improve their financial health and efficiency and have recently published a schools’ buying strategy to help schools maximise savings from their £10 billion of non-staff spend.

Evidence shows that high-quality teaching is the most important school-based determinant of pupil outcomes. We have also published workforce planning guidance to help ensure that schools are always investing in the right mix of staff to deliver excellent pupil outcomes. This guidance is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/schools-financial-health-and-efficiency.

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