New findings once again highlight that budget pressures are weighing heavily on the minds of primary school leaders, with 50 per cent expecting this to be the biggest challenge on the horizon, according to The Key’s recent annual survey. So how are schools responding?
More than six in 10 (62 per cent) primary schools told our researchers that they would need to make savings to balance their budgets in 2017/18. For some schools that could mean hundreds of thousands of pounds to find. While this may not come as a particular surprise in light of the volume of news coverage on the current funding situation, more surprising perhaps are the methods of income generation that schools are turning to.
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