f40 responds to government's education funding consultation
F40 – the group that campaigns for fairer funding in education in England – has submitted its response to the government’s consultation on the method for distributing funding to schools.
In its response f40 emphasises the importance of creating a system that is fair to all, a principle that has been at the heart of its campaign over more than a decade.
Viewed by f40 supporters as the best opportunity in a generation for England’s lowest funded authorities to get a new, fairer system for the allocation of education cash, the consultation closes on 7 June.
f40 chairman, Cllr Ivan Ould, who is also Lead Member for Children and Older People’s Services at Leicestershire County Council, hopes that the new Coalistion government will follow through on the consultation, which was launched by the last labour administration.
“The extensive research and evidence gathering undertaken over the last eighteen months, plus the contributions to the consultation submitted by local education authorities, schools forum, governors, trade unions and other organisations involved in delivering the education of our children, is far too valuable to be ignored.
“We hope that the government will continue to recognise the inadequacies and unfairness built in to the existing, discredited system. All we are looking for is a new, fairer, simpler and more transparent system be introduced in time for the three-year schools allocation for 2011-14.”
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