Funding
The latest news and analysis on funding received by local authority and academy schools in the UK, including government spending, advice on budgeting and more
Friday
13th Jun 2025
Uncovering 3,000 FSM pupils could bring in 拢3m
A MAT CEO says improvements to free school meal access are welcome but internal work at his trust shows there is a lot more to do to make the system benefit more families 鈥� and schools
Revealed: Exam boards鈥� inflation-busting fee increases
Price rises for GCSE and A-level exam entries have been branded 鈥榗ompletely unacceptable鈥� by sector leaders
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Thursday
12th Jun 2025
Spending Review could mean teacher pay rises of 2% per year, experts say
Schools could see real-terms falls in actual budgets as pupil numbers fall and more is spent on SEND
Unfilled secondary school places up 50% in two years
Increase comes amid a major demographic shift caused by a falling birth rate that has resulted in the number of available primary places dropping to a decade-long low
DfE 鈥榮hould auto-enrol鈥� pupils for free school meals
Call for all eligible children to be automatically enrolled for FSM follows the government announcement that it is expanding the entitlement from next year
Wednesday
11th Jun 2025
Times are still tight, but the Spending Review sends the right signals
The fact that education has done better in the government鈥檚 Spending Review than other departments shows a positive change in priorities, writes this MAT chief executive
Spending Review 2025: what it means for schools
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has set out government spending plans up to 2029. Here鈥檚 what you need to know