Richard Exell
Michael Gove has announced the abolition of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSNB). The SSNB was set up by the Labour government to develop a national standard for the pay and conditions of 450,000 caretakers, teaching assistants, canteen and clerical workers and other non-teaching staff.
Richard Exell
A dramatic story on the Financial Times website reports a “close analysis” of the funding settlement for education in the Spending Review. The newspaper reveals that most schools will have their budgets cut during a period when the number of pupils is rising;
Nicola Smith
The Guardian reports that education cuts will include youth clubs, after-school music and art activities and child safety projects.
Nicola Smith
The county council in Plymouth is proposing to cut concessionary travel for children and young people in response to central Government grant reductions.
Anjum Klair
Ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review, Children and Young People Now have published a series of in-depth regional reports on cuts impacting on young people. A summary of the key cuts impacting on children’s services is provided below:
Anjum Klair
We have been reporting regulaly on cuts to capital funding for Early Years, which are emerging from all over the country since local authorities were told by the Department for Education in July to put on hold any funding not already ‘fully committed’. Now Nursery World further reports that last week more nurseries around the country have had their hopes for new or improved buildings dashed
Nicola Smith
In Brighton, the Connexions youth advice service, which unions and local groups are campaigning to save, has already had a ‘To Let’ sign placed outside its office.
Anjum Klair
Reports of cuts to capital funding are emerging from all over the country as local authorities were told by the Department for Education in July to put on hold any funding not already ‘fully committed’.
Nicola Smith
The Department for Education has cut funding for the ‘schools strand’ of the Youth of Today programme. The schools work, which began in February 2009 and was due to be completed in March 2011, was part of the overall Youth of Today programme which aims to improve the quality and quantity of youth leadership opportunities for disadvantaged 13 to 19 year olds.
Richard Exell
The government looks set to announce that all 200 of the new-build schools planned under Building Schools for the Future can go ahead after all – so long as much cheaper “prefab” methods are used.
