Why are the Tories letting schools face 200% energy bill price rise?
A class at school: but what will happen to education if this institution has to divert all its resources, simply into paying its heating bill?
It’s as though the energy price rise is being used to drain the UK of all its resources – including education, which is still (mostly) run by the government.
Schools are facing energy price rises of more than 200 per cent – with more to come – and they can’t just turn off the lights or the radiators in rooms that aren’t being used, or take a £400 government subsidy like households.
And schools are also being asked to make pay awards for which the government has provided no extra funding at all.
(And this is the background against which Liz Truss wants to make tax cuts?)
It’s bizarre that the government has allowed this to happen. Look at France, where price increases are capped at four per cent, no matter what; this is a political choice to harm the education of millions of UK children:
Without additional funding, school leaders are warning of redundancies, bigger class sizes and cuts to the curriculum, which they say could damage children’s education for years to come.
Kenneth Baker, who was education secretary from 1986 to 1989, said schools would go into the red without government intervention. “We’re heading into a really ghastly two-year period and it’s going to require remarkable leadership to come out of this smiling,” he said.
Like the funding we need to pay these bills, remarkable leadership is absent from the UK’s current Tory government.
Read the full nightmare scenario: Leading Tories call on new PM to tackle crisis facing schools over soaring costs
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