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In our annual breaking point survey published in January, 72 per cent of school leaders told us that their budgets will be unsustainable by 2019.

The survey by The Key, a leadership and management support service, also revealed that almost 90 per cent of school leaders thought cuts to council services had a «detrimental impact» on the support their institutions received for SEND, and 88 per cent believe initial teacher training does not adequately prepare teachers to support pupils with additional needs.

At secondary level, 74 per cent of school leaders said their schools had been forced to cut teachers over the last year due to tight budgets, with a similar proportion saying the same about teaching assistants.

Additionally, 58 per cent of school leaders have had to offer enhanced salaries or other financial incentives to recruit teachers, while 27 per cent are no longer able to provide courses in some subjects, such as design and technology, music and modern foreign languages.

According to figures from its annual survey of school budgets, 86 per cent of school leaders believe that the government is underfunding the additional needs of children, causing major financial pressures.

Forty - five per cent of school leaders have found it difficult to commission mental health support for pupils, research shows.

The data — taken from The Key's annual State of Education report to be released in May, and weighted by Ipsos MORI — reveals that only eight per cent of school leaders expect to either achieve a surplus or to balance their budget without making any savings in the next financial year.

The research involved surveying 1,100 school leaders, the results of which suggested that 82 per cent of mainstream schools in England do not have sufficient funding to adequately provide for pupils with SEND; 89 per cent of school leaders believe cuts to local authority services have had a detrimental impact on the support their school receives for pupils with SEND; three - quarters of schools have pupils who have been waiting longer than expected for assessment of special educational needs or an education, health and care plan; and 88 per cent of school leaders think initial teacher training does not adequately prepare teachers to support pupils with SEND.

Fifty - six per cent of school leaders in mainstream schools across England said they had encountered negative or offensive comments on social media from children's parents over the past year.

Support in the form of teaching assistants may be set to diminish further, with more than two - thirds (68 per cent) of the 64 per cent of school leaders who need to make savings in 2017 - 18 planning to reduce their support staff.

To try and generate additional income, 42 per cent of school leaders report letting school buildings, 10 per cent admit to setting up on - site nursery provision, and 25 per cent are linking up with nearby schools to share catering or cleaning contracts.

Even before new cuts bite, a recent survey showed that over 50 per cent of school leaders expect budget pressures and lack of funding to be their biggest challenge in the next academic year.

It has also revealed that nearly three quarters (71 per cent) of school leaders are only able balance their budgets by making cuts or dipping in to reserves, and that 72 per cent of school leaders say their budgets will be unsustainable by 2019.

Thirty - one per cent of school leaders said that the most common barrier to finding support was due to lack of local services and 28 per cent put it down to budget constraints.

The survey, which asked over 1,100 head teachers, insinuated that 31 per cent of school leaders believe that more than half of their new starters in Reception had arrived under - prepared in some way, with 78 per cent claiming that they pupils behind expected levels in speaking and without the social skills expected at the age of four.

While the overall number of teachers has kept pace with changing pupil numbers, the NAO reported that 54 per cent of school leaders in areas with large proportions of disadvantaged pupils find attracting and keeping good teachers is «a major problem».

The NAHT published its annual recruitment survey before the meeting, which reported 79 per cent of school leaders were facing problems in recruiting quality teachers.

And only eight per cent of school leaders said that they did not foresee a year where they would have an untenable deficit.

A joint NCB and Association of School College Lecturers (ASCL) survey conducted earlier this year found that 55 per cent of school leaders have seen a large increase in anxiety or stress, with 79 per cent reporting an increase in self harm or suicidal thoughts amongst teenagers.

For example, the report reveals that 43 per cent of schools leaders say they have been letting out their school building.

79 per cent of schools leaders who have advertised vacancies are facing recruitment problems, according to new research from the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT).

Not exact matches

The survey, which looked at the public's perception of the leaders» personalities, also found 36 per cent of the population believe Mr Miliband would have been bullied at school.

According to The Key's findings, financial worry has spread significantly among school leaders in the last year with 51 per cent considering budget pressures and lack of funding as the biggest challenge for the coming academic year.

The Association of School of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has urged the government to «fully fund» all pay rises in the education sector and remove the one per cent pay cap on teachers» pay.

The 2015 School Travel Forum (STF) survey of over 2,000 teachers and subject leaders found that 75 per cent of respondents had no awareness of the LOtC Quality Badge.

In addition to this, almost half (48 per cent) of school leaders stated that they lacked confidence in their school's ability to cover staffing costs in the next one to two years.

BESA's survey of 1,204 school leaders (719 primary and 485 secondary) supported this notion of a divide between schools; revealing that 39 per cent of primary schools and 45 per cent of secondary schools felt their budget was big enough and that they were likely to maintain their planned ICT investments.

With over 47 per cent of project funds across 82 per cent of participating schools spent on teacher release - and only a very small portion of this time allocated to formal training programs - school leaders are now opting for technology - supported learning in addition to traditional forms.

On average, participating CC21 school leaders are spending 12.1 hours per week in their professional learning outside of the traditional school walls, with the majority of this time (6.5 hours, or 53.7 per cent) spent searching for and reading online information relevant to their teaching context.

82 per cent of teachers, school leaders and heads oppose opening new grammar schools, according to the results of a new poll.

Although only 253 female teachers responded to several thousands of surveys distributed, of those respondents, 88 per cent of those had been in the teaching industry for more than 10 years and 90 per cent were principals or school leaders, NESLI reported.

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David Williams, Cabinet Member for Education, concludes: «We have some of the best education facilities in the UK, and to have 90 per cent of our schools rated good or outstanding is testament to the hard work of school leaders, teachers and governing bodies.

The TES budget survey, carried out in May 2016, found that 80 per cent of teachers and 76 per cent of leaders had noticed a drop in the number of teachers at their secondary school.

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And, in a time of increasing costs and decreasing revenues, some district leaders and food advocates worry whether 6 cents will allow schools to serve healthier fare, when the current federal reimbursement of $ 2.72 per free meal already has many school programs running in the red.

In particular, growth in use of tablet devices by teachers and students was clear; 81 per cent of participating school leaders now own and use tablets for professional learning, and the majority of CC21 schools used project funds to purchase and trial iPads in the classroom.

School leaders in London and the South East also reported recruitment difficulties due to high housing and living costs, with 63 per cent of respondents from inner London citing this as an issue.

More recently, in our YouGov TeacherTrack survey, a quarter of senior school leaders (27 per cent) said they don't expect to be working in education beyond the next one to two years.

The «State of Education» report also revealed that 99.5 per cent of primary school leaders believe that a proportion of their pupils were joining school below the required level of school - readiness.

According to a survey by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), 80 per cent of respondents have had to make their class sizes bigger over the last 12 months.

The third most quoted source of financial pressure reported by school leaders was the cost of dealing with the additional needs of pupils, reported by 83 per cent of respondents.

The research is based on responses from 1,114 school leaders across England and Wales and shows that 93 per cent of participants believe that pupils are bringing more worries into school than they did five years ago.

With schools facing increased costs amounting to 4.5 per cent due to pay rises, National Insurance contributions and pension deficits, it's no wonder that more than 90 per cent of 1,000 head teachers surveyed by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) say that their finances are going to be critically under pressure for 2015/2016.

Whilst there is no doubt that EFA staff are working extremely hard in this challenging context, so are teachers and school leaders, who have had pay rises of a maximum of one per cent a year imposed on them for the duration of this parliament.»

65 per cent of academy school leaders told us they are concerned about the impact of cuts to ESG.

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has called on the government to explain the payments made to civil servants identified as the «top 25 per cent of performers».

Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek told ABC News Australia is slightly below average in the area of funding for schools, and less than 10 per cent of extra needs - based funding has been delivered.

According to a research poll of 1,361 teachers published by the Sutton Trust, 32 per cent of senior leaders in primary schools admitted that they are using their pupil premium funding in this way.

The research, undertaken with a representative sample of 906 school leaders by the National Education Research Panel (NERP), reveals that 53 per cent of primary schools and 52 per cent of secondary schools say their school is not adequately funded to provide a suitable teaching and learning environment.