Schools say they are being left to pay for increases in employers’ contributions to National Insurance and superannuation.
The Department of Education has been covering the superannuation fund up until now. The leaders of 80 large schools say the situation is now “critical”.
School budgets are already stretched to breaking point by successive cuts in recent years and all reasonable, cost reducing steps having been exhausted, they say.
However, a new survey reveals that schools now face unprecedented financial pressures.
Some will be running deficits of between £150,000 and £500,000, which they fear will have a direct and significant detrimental effect on the quality of education currently offered to pupils.
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