Sentences with phrase «of a national funding formula»

Luke Sibieta, the other author of the report, said: «The introduction of a national funding formula for schools in England looks set to be one of the most radical shake - ups of school funding in at least the past 30 years.

While the Government is already reforming the way in which money is distributed to schools through the introduction of a national funding formula for schools, the spending review process will determine the overall level of public funding for schools and colleges.

This is not surprising, given the overall concern about the impact of the National Funding Formula redistribution and the inadequacy of the total funding allocated to schools up to 2020 when set against cost pressures.

The implementation of a national funding formula for schools could create «significant numbers» of winners and losers or lead to large cuts for inner - London schools, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned.

«There is no guarantee that it will be sufficient to ensure that the Conservative Party's manifesto pledge, that no school will lose out because of the National Funding Formula, will be met.

Greening said today the government will respond to the first stage of the national funding formula consultation in autumn.

The IPPR has called on the government to use its forthcoming review of the national funding formula to weight funding more heavily towards areas of the country which have high levels of disadvantage and which struggle to recruit teachers.

In absence of the national funding formula (NFF), which has been delayed until 2018/19, it would also allow academy chains spanning more than one local authority to address large inequalities in funding.

«The introduction of a national funding formula from 2017 to 2018 will see the biggest step towards fairer funding in over a decade - ensuring that pupils get funding that genuinely matches their need.

The implications of the national funding formula for schools report found that the government's proposals are «unlikely to satisfy many local areas which have been relatively lower funded and have campaigned vocally for a new formula».

Few would argue with the merits of a national funding formula and a fairer distribution of the current quantum.

The statement on small schools is nonsense because in reality most very small schools would not be considered sustainable even as part of a MAT in the context of a national funding formula which will not give sufficient weight to the school's small size.

With the second phase of the national funding formula consultation outstanding, and the DfE's «softer» approach to full academisation still to be fully understood, it is perhaps naive to ask for a level playing field for all schools in 2017.

Economist Luke Sibieta, programme director for education at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, also gave evidence to the education select committee and said it would take «a matter of minutes» to make the pupil premium part of the national funding formula, adding he didn't see much value in having «one factor with different values in different formulas».

The news of a hung parliament is already causing many commentators to warn of the death of the National Funding Formula and yet fair and adequate funding for schools is still of vital importance.

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Over the last six months, school funding has been an almost constant feature in policy debate, from the proposed introduction of a National Funding Formula to the longer running cuts and freezes schools are facing to their budgets.

The implementation of a National Funding Formula (NFF) is at last becoming a reality, but the government can only make information available for the first two years, 2018/19 and 2019/20, and the ultimate impact on school budgets will still depend on local decisions.

He continued: «There is no guarantee that it will be sufficient to ensure that the Conservative Party's manifesto pledge, that no school will lose out because of the National Funding Formula, will be met.

The impact on local authorities will be stark as their funding flexibility ebbs away, precipitated by the introduction of a national funding formula, designed to smooth out regional funding variations, in 2017.

The NEU also state that the introduction of the National Funding Formula can't solve this problem unless the funding cuts are reversed and significant extra resources included for underfunded schools.

Mr Barton said: «We welcome the additional funding for schools pledged by the government today and its continued commitment to the introduction of a national funding formula.

The Department for Education says the introduction of the National Funding Formula has been widely welcomed, and there haven't been any cuts, with every school seeing an increase from 2018.

A spokesman for the Department for Education said by 2020 schools would be getting 50 % more per pupil in real terms than they got in 2000 - and that the introduction of the National Funding Formula would address historic funding disparities.

Another thorny question, which for many years has been kicked into the long grass, has been around the introduction of a national funding formula.

But the introduction of a national funding formula, due to begin from next year, has been postponed until 2018 - 19.

The introduction of the National Funding Formula can't solve this problem unless the funding cuts are reversed and significant extra resources included for underfunded schools.

With the introduction of the National Funding Formula (NFF) and the rise of academisation, the need for school to school support in school business leadership may continue to grow with an increasing demand on SLEs and expert school business and education funding consultants.

It seems that this has led DfE to conclude that some LAs are introducing loans schemes as a way round the requirement that deficits of schools which become sponsored academies revert to the local authority, rather than as a supportive response to fears about future funding and the impact of the National Funding Formula.

All three experts agreed that the implementation of the national funding formula, aimed at ending historical inequalities, would be pushed back until 2018.