WHICH REFLECTS REALITY:
“More funding than ever’ going in to schools says East Devon MP”
A funding boost in this year’s education budget is set to benefit East Devon schools, MP Sir Hugo Swire has been told.
The Secretary of State for Education Damian Hinds told the East Devon MP that the core schools budget is set to rise to £43.5 billion for 2019-20, meaning ‘more money than ever’ is going into education.
https://www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/sir-hugo-swire-meeting-with-secretary-state-education-1-5963810
OR
‘Devon school’s staff redundancies are ‘heartbreaking’
“Jayne Keller, head at Sherwell Valley Primary School in Torquay, said 13 teaching assistants had lost their jobs due to financial pressures.
The latest figures from the government show that the number of teachers in Devon’s schools has dropped by 284 from 2016/17 to 2017/18, and there are 367 fewer teaching assistants.
The government said more money than ever before is going into schools.
But Ms Keller said there was “nothing left to cut”.”
East Devon Watch 
H – no doubt you’ve seen this piece https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/oct/08/uk-statistics-body-has-serious-concerns-over-dfe-funding-claims which begins ‘The education secretary, Damian Hinds, has been publicly reprimanded by the UK statistics watchdog over his department’s repeated misuse of data, in particular its “potentially misleading” claims over schools funding’. That one is from October 2018 but this one is from a couple of days ago https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/25/schools-funding-shortfall-of-54bn-worse-than-estimated with the headline ‘Schools funding shortfall of £5.4bn ‘worse than estimated’’.
Ken Clayton
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Grammar schools get the money.- Thanks to Mrs May
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Don’t forget academies sucking up cash and spitting it out to their directors and not the pupils.
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And the “free”schools…
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Don’t forget Hugo Swine, who charges us for his mars bars and moved out of the constituency, she makes no personal contribution to the local economy, also votes without fail in support of the funding scheme which leaves Devon students significantly worse off than the majority elsewhere. Every time. There are enough dog whistle tory voters here for them to know our children don’t need to be given their fair share of the cake.
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