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Our aim is to influence a change in the way the government allocates funding to local education authorities and schools. The allocations for primary and secondary pupils in the authorities in the f40 group are the lowest in the country.
Whilst f40 has welcomed the extra money allocated to education in recent years, it believes that the failure of formula adjustments in recent years have failed to address the fundamental problems inherent in the old system. The Group feels it is left with no choice but to reiterate its call for further change that would be meaningful and fair to its member authorities and children being educated by them.The new formula introduced in 2002 and further adjusted in subsequent years, has been shown to be as unfair and as unjust as the old formula. League tables showing the funding of all education authorities in England since the formula was changed highlight that the disparity has got worse year on year. The gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ is widening and there is no agreement about the basic entitlement for each pupil.
We believe that if the government, through LSCs, can provide exactly the same allocation per student across the country, it should be able to do the same at primary and secondary levels.
f40 wants to see a new system which recognises the special needs of all LEAs whether they are in urban, rural or inner London locations. We do not believe in taking anything away from authorities more highly ranked in the funding league tables but we want a system which allows the lowest funded councils to catch up.
