Education funding is stuck in the past: our schools cannot absorb more cuts and teachers and pupils cannot thrive in underfunded schools
Years of rising costs and unfunded pay awards are forcing schools into increasingly impossible decisions about staffing, resources and support for pupils.
Seventy per cent of teachers tell us that their school does not have the funding required to provide quality teaching and learning and NASUWT estimates that a quarter of all schools in England will be at serious financial risk by the end of the school year.
Our education system is not a budget to be balanced: it is the foundation of our society.
In order to Fix Our Future, the government must Fund Education - the two go hand in hand. We have to fund fairness and we have to fund hope.
Find out more about the impact of education funding cuts on teachers and pupils
Watch and listen to F is For…., the new video podcast where NASUWT members talk about the challenges they face in schools and discuss real solutions to issues in education funding, SEND provision, teachers’ workloads and working conditions, and work-life balance.
Read our ground-breaking Where Has All the Money Gone? report to find out how academy trusts, exam boards, supply agencies and education consultants are profiteering at alarming rates.
How can we Fix Our Future and Fund Education?
The government must increase education funding to at least 6% of GDP. You can help to make this happen by signing and sharing our petition to increase education funding.
Contact your MP to demand they urgently act to secure:
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significant new investment in all parts of the UK for all needs identified in relation to SEND (staffing, training and facilities);
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urgent national action to tackle excessive workload and hours;
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withdrawal of any threat to the contractual provisions on working hours (1,265 hours) within teachers’ terms and conditions;
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the introduction in all state-funded schools of maternity provision granting 52 weeks of full pay with the funding from government to support it;
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fully funded, real-terms, above-inflation pay increases which restore the pay lost over 15 years;
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national pay and conditions for any person working in a state-funded school, including Trust Central Teams;
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accountability for academy trusts and effective, swift, mechanisms for intervention when trusts fail to manage public money effectively; and
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regulation of supply teacher agencies to ensure fair pay for supply teachers and lower costs to schools.
