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Saturday, 29 January 2022

A decision by the Government to withdraw the School Improvement Grant is being criticised by Richmond Council.

The funding has been halved for this year and next and will be withdrawn completely from 2024.  

Richmond has received £175,500 from this grant over the last year.

The authority says its removal will impact its ability to provide support to schools where concerns are identified.

The Government’s response: “We recognise that there is significant concern, particularly from councils and the maintained sector about removing this additional source of funding. However, given one of the rationales of these proposals is to create greater parity between how school improvement is funded in the maintained and academies sector, which does not receive such additional school improvement funding, after careful consideration of the responses, the government intends to proceed with implementing the proposals.”

posted by Radio Jackie News Team @ 6:49 am