£2.2bn boost will provide ‘superb education for all’

SCHOOLS in England will be handed a massive £2.2billion funding boost – with Boris Johnson saying the cash will help every pupil to receive a “superb education”.

Secondary schools will attract a minimum of £5,150 per pupil, up from £5,000 this year, while primary schools will get at least £4,000 per pupil, up from £3,750.

The Department for Education said the annual increase would see most local authorities receive rises of at least three per cent.

There will be smaller rises for some “historically higher funded” authorities while small and remote schools in rural areas will get additional cash to reflect the pressures they face.

The increase is the second instalment of a three-year settlement which will see annual funding rise by said schools would also benefit from the Government’s one-off £1billion Covid-19 “catch up” package to make up for lost teaching time.

Under the scheme, a secondary school with 1,000 pupils will receive £80,000 and a 200-pupil primary school would receive £16,000.

The Association of School and College Leaders welcomed the announcement but said it was “disappointed” it had not addressed reimbursing the costs of bringing back schools safely after the lockdown.

General secretary Geoff Barton added: “Safety measures include cleaning schedules, quantities of hand sanitisers, extra hand-washing facilities and cover for staff unable to attend because they are self-isolating.

“Budgets are tight and schools do not have enough money to cope with such a national emergency.” her determination to get justice for her son “still burns extremely strong”.

Harry, 19, was killed on August 27 last year outside a US listening station, RAF Croughton, in Northants.

Mrs Sacoolas, 43, the wife of a US intelligence official, claimed diplomatic immunity and returned to America.

Yesterday heartbroken Charlotte released a video to ask the three men to make sure her son’s life is taken into account.

She said they would be getting together with “all of your families fully intact whilst mine is in complete tatters and my family has been ripped apart”.

Mr Raab said yesterday: “We’re on the family’s side. But I want to be realistic because I don’t want to raise expectations.”