It will now be “impossible” to avoid redundancies, keep class sizes down or offer a full curriculum to pupils, school leaders have warned in the aftermath of last week’s Autumn Budget.
School budgets remain at “breaking point” after the chancellor ignored pleas from unions and other campaign groups for wholesale investment in education.
The Budget featured some specific funding plans for schools, including in mathematics and computer science education, but yielded no significant additional investment and refused to acknowledge the real-terms funding cuts that have hit schools budgets.
The National Education Union said that the government had taken “a political choice” and had “chosen to ignore ... the clear evidence of the problems being created by real-terms cuts to education”.
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