FUNDING CHANGES

The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says a new proposed funding model could do more harm than good. Professor John O’Neill of CPAG said that the proposed axing of the current decile funding system on the basis that it is too crude and to replacing it with another could seriously disadvantage schools on a national level. ‘‘Abandoning decile based resource allocation without a precise and educationally valid replacement is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater, ‘‘ he says.