THE education lead at Conservative-run Northumberland County Council is calling on the party’s leadership hopefuls to start again on schools funding.
Coun. Wayne Daley, the authority’s cabinet member for children’s services, vowed to ‘hold to account’ those seeking to be Prime Minister.
He said he will be challenging the candidates with the question: “How can we provide an outstanding education with a National Funding Formula (NFF) that does not recognise the unique challenges in Northumberland?”
Councils will have to follow the NFF by 2021, but concerns have been raised that while some schools will gain, others will lose out. “The National Funding Formula is not fit for purpose. It doesn’t work for Northumberland and we need to get it changed,” Coun. Daley said.
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