Former senior civil servant sets out five areas the government must address in its spending plans
This Spending Review will be a defining milestone for this government. Yet, I'm less confident it will be in the way the Department for Education needs it to be.
Since I returned to the civil service in 2010, I've been saying how tough every Spending Review will be, but this one feels especially tricky. Deep-rooted problems and pressures persisting from the pandemic, the global economic environment and threats to European security makes the numbers even harder to add up.
With financial wriggle room narrowing, here are the five measures – aside from schools spending – I'd like the department to prioritise in its Spending Review settlement.
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