Schools 'Can't Go Any Further' - Stop The Cuts: Set Deficit Budgets Now

“With less and less money to run schools, we are suffering enormously. Cuts have been made but we can’t go any further.

- Nick Chaffey

“That would directly impact the educational standards we are trying to achieve,” explained Southampton headteacher and National Union of Teachers (NUT - now part of the National Education Union) member Liz Filer.

‘Southampton Fair Funding for All Schools’ brought teachers, students, TAs, heads and parents onto the streets on 14 October to protest against the growing crisis in Southampton schools. The action took place ahead of the national lobby of MPs at Westminster on 24 October, which the campaign has built for.

The schools crisis faces an added twist with further cuts under the new Tory funding formula. The Westminster lobby should rally teachers and parents to back a national schools strike to stop the cuts.