Brighton and Hove council leader warns of school staff cuts due to 'inadequate funding'
The City Council has been told it will receive a 1.7 percent increase per pupil next year
The leader of Brighton and Hove City Council has warned that half the city’s schools could be forced to cut staff due to inadequate funding.
The authority has been told it will receive a 1.7 percent increase per pupil next year.
But Phélim Mac Cafferty has written to the new education secretary, Kit Malthouse, asking him to ‘urgently reconsider’ – saying it will “seriously jeopardise the quality and provision of education to children and young people in the city”.
He added: “In order to balance their budgets over the longer term, I fear schools will have little choice but to cut staffing and reduce the quality of education provision to their pupils.”
Teachers will receive a pay award of 5 percent from this month plus a flat cash pay award around 9 percent for non-teaching staff.