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To: The Secretary of State for Education - Nicky Morgan
Fund all UK pupils fairly
We want the UK national government to urgently reform how it allocates money to local authorities to finance our children’s school education.
We call for a national formula to be introduced, swiftly, so that central government will allocate money to local authorities based on actual pupil needs and with a fair and scaled approach to funding extra educational support for any and every deprived child, wherever they may live.
Why is this important?
More than three million UK pupils are being under-funded for their education because central government, incredibly, does not fund basic education costs and extra learning needs equally across the country. Local Authorities are allocated money for schools based on out-dated, historical criteria, which has created shocking underfunding of pupils in more than 50 areas, across the country. Schools in those areas have only managed through their thrift, resourcefulness and others' charity. Their deprived children have not received the extra funding that they need and would receive if they lived elsewhere in England and all of their pupils have been affected. This unacceptable situation has been going on for decades, obscured to the public by layers of funding complexity. But no longer: it is time for parents and communities to push for change urgently, because, with education cuts forecast, more than a ⅓ of the already underfunded schools can no longer make do and mend - they face bankruptcy. Millions of our children's futures are at stake.
How it will be delivered
The petition will be delivered in person to Nicky Morgan, with a press photocall, at the Houses of Parliament.
