Between 2010 and 2019, total UK spending on education fell by £10bn (8%) in real terms.
This includes a 9% real-terms fall in school spending per pupil and a 14% fall in spending per student in colleges.
These cuts are without precedent in post-war UK history.
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The £4.4 billion for the schools budget in 2024 announced in the Spending Review will bring spending per pupil back to 2010 levels and reverse past cuts.
But this means there will have been 15 years with no overall growth in school spending.
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Deprived schools have seen larger cuts over the last decade.
The most deprived fifth of secondary schools saw a 14% real-terms fall in spending per pupil between 2009 and 2019, compared with a 9% drop for the least deprived schools.
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The National Funding Formula has given bigger real-terms increases for the least deprived schools (8–9%) than for the most deprived ones (5%) between 2017-2022. The Pupil Premium hasn't kept pace with inflation since 2015.
This has negative implications for levelling up.
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Even with additional funding from the recent Spending Review, college spending per pupil in 2024 will still be around 10% below 2010 levels, while school sixth-form spending per pupil will be 23% below 2010 levels.
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And although additional Spending Review funding means adult education & apprenticeships funding will rise by 30% in real terms between 2019-24, spending will still be 15% below 2009 levels.
Spending on adult education on its own fell by 49% between 2009 and 2019.
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‘This will make it that much harder to achieve ambitious goals to level up poorer areas of the country and narrow educational inequalities, which were gaping even before the pandemic,’ warns @lukesibieta.
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Total state school spending per pupil in England dropped from £8,000 in 2009–10 to £7,100 in 2020–21. In that time, net private school fees rose from £11,100 to £13,600.
Private school sixth form fees are 3 times more than funding levels for sixth forms in state schools.
Despite private school fees increasing by more than 20% in real terms since 2010, the share of pupils at private schools in England has barely budged over the last decade (6.5% in 2020).
Private school fees are over 90% higher than present spending levels in state schools.
NEW: The past 40 years shows NHS spending plans are almost always topped up.
If history repeats itself, the ‘temporary’ increases in NHS funding could end up permanently swallowing up the money raised by the tax rise, leaving little for social care.
The extra funding provided for the NHS in yesterday's announcement will result in spending growing at 3.9% a year between 2018−19 and 2024−25.
This is exactly the same rate of growth as was planned between 2018−19 and 2023−24.
This suggests little in the way of virus-related spending after 2024.
A future top up could be required – but even without one, health spending is set to account for an ever-growing share of total day-to-day public service spending: 44% by 2024−25, up from 27% in 1999−00.
NEW REPORT: In their 30s, children with parents in the wealthiest fifth of their generation had average net wealth six times greater than those with parents in the poorest fifth.
Having wealthy parents is particularly important for getting to the top of the wealth distribution.
Children of the wealthiest fifth of parents are almost three times as likely to be in the wealthiest fifth in their generation as those with average parental wealth.
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Children of wealthier parents are much more likely to be homeowners by age 30.
65% for those with parents in the top third of the wealth distribution owned a house, compared to against 56% and 41% for those whose parents were in the middle and bottom thirds, respectively.
NEW: Home learning improved substantially over the course of the pandemic – but this still leaves huge learning inequalities from the first lockdown baked in.
Secondary school students’ learning time rose from 22 hours per week in the first lockdown to 29 hours in the second school closures.
Despite these improvements, 40% of children still did not meet the government’s minimum guidelines for learning time.
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In Autumn 2020, only 40% of pupils were offered interactive resources like online classes for self-isolating.
Support was worse for poorer pupils; 43% of secondary school pupils from the richest families were offered online classes, compared to 35% of poorer pupils.
There is a ‘patchwork’ of vulnerability to the #coronavirus crisis across England. But some local authorities do look vulnerable in multiple ways.
There are nine local authorities where public health, local jobs and families are all more vulnerable to the crisis than average.
Vulnerabilities to the #COVID19 crisis do not always overlap geographically.
Areas where residents look particularly vulnerable to the health effects aren't in general those likely to be hit hardest by job losses. Areas with more children at risk tend to be different again.