The £650m catch-up premium is just a footnote when compared to the huge strain being put on school budgets by the Covid-19 crisis. Primary school leader Anthony David is deeply concerned


This is a personal article. If it rings true to you, which I suspect it will, then I will know that I am not alone in my concerns.

Small schools are in jeopardy. In fact, I would go as far as to say that some small schools could end up facing a financial cliff-edge because of the Covid-19 crisis.

School funding is not a new story. We have been challenging the government over funding for the last decade.

As school budgets were cut in real-terms, we have reduced and reduced and reduced. Schools have cut back on staff, leaders have refused pay rises, we have joined forces in MATs and federations to create economies of scale, and yet we are still looking over the precipice.

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