Chancellor's budget cash handout to school heads is not new money
Gordon Brown's apparent budget hand out of extra money for school heads is another example of the same money being recycled in a different guise. In the budget Mr. Brown announced that a typical primary school of 250 pupils would receive a direct payment of £55,000 and a 1000 pupil secondary school could expect a cheque for £180,000. An e-mail from the Department of Education and Skills received by Kingsbridge Community College recently confirmed that this is not new money. These payments are nothing more than a combination of the existing School Standards Fund and the Devolved Formula Capital Grant that were previously announced.
26 Mar 2004
