Education Secretary quizzed by opposition on funding
Angela Rayner has this week raised concerns in Parliament over funding cuts to education.
The Shadow Education Secretary was speaking in the House of commons on Tuesday, directing questions on topics such as funding, the teacher recruitment crisis and SEND provisions to the Secretary of State Damian Hinds.
The Labour MP said: “The Government have, of course, failed to meet their teacher recruitment targets for the past five years and teachers now face a real crisis.
“The Department for Education told us that the teachers pay grant would cover the cost of the pay rise, but that does not include the first £250 million needed to give staff a 1% pay rise, and the Secretary of State’s own Ministers have admitted that not every school will get the funding it needs through the grant.”
The Secretary of State for Education said: “Great schools are all about great teachers, and we have 10,000 more of them in our schools than in 2010. They and their colleagues have achieved quite remarkable things, with our highest ever score in international tests in primary reading, a reformed curriculum and qualifications, more young people doing the subjects that keep their options most open, more young people going on to further study, and more young people in schools rated good or outstanding.”
You can read the full transcript here.