The £1.4bn in additional funding announced pales in comparison to the leaked £15bn proposal set out by Collins.
The Education Policy Institute’s figures show the £1.4bn package equates to an extra £50 per pupil funding per year, barely scratching the surface of what is needed to reverse the significant learning loss suffered by pupils since March 2020.
Placed in context, the Netherland’s £7bn funding package stands at £2,500 per pupil; in the US, this is approximately £1,600. Such a meagre offering is all the more surprising given that the Prime Minister is on record as saying that education recovery will be his post-pandemic priority.
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