Schools funding crisis in Rochdale

Schools in Rochdale Borough to lose millions in Government funding

The National Union of Teachers is angry that cuts to school budgets see schools facing losing of up to £3 billion a year by 2020.

Rochdale faces larger than average cuts. The table below shows how the cuts affect local constituencies.

Constituency Rochdale

Income 2015/16 £82,234,784
Change by 2019/20 -£9,319,289
Change in teachers -248
Size of cuts ranking out of 533 (1 = biggest) 125

http://www.schoolcuts.org.uk/#!/email-your-candidates?constituencyId=E14000897

Constituency Heywood and Middleton

Income 2015/16 £65,082,933
Change by 2019/20 -£8,125,969
Change in teachers -214
Size of cuts ranking out of 533 (1 = biggest) 87

http://www.schoolcuts.org.uk/#!/email-your-candidates?constituencyId=E14000747

The NUT, ATL and NAHT have updated the 'Schools Cuts' website – www.schoolcuts.org.uk – so voters can email each parliamentary candidate asking them to oppose funding cuts. By putting a postcode into the website, candidates in your area will appear and you can send an email to each one, asking them to oppose the real terms funding cuts for schools.

Nicholas Wigmore, Rochdale Secretary, said: "Already head teachers are saying that they cannot cope with the current levels of funding. This is a situation that will only get worse if the previous Government's National Funding Formula is implemented.

"It is vital that all candidates standing in the General Election for Heywood and Middleton, as well as Rochdale, promise to increase school funding. Failure to do so will see our schools continue to be desperately under resourced, teacher posts cut and drastic measures, such as closing schools earlier, may be considered.

"Parents and children in our Borough deserve better and our politicians should be standing with us in demanding investment in our schools."