The Local Authority School Improvement Monitoring and Brokering (LAMB) grant has been handed to councils since 2017 to help local schools improve.
But last year the government launched a consultation on plans to end the grant from the start of the 2023/24 financial year 20 and slash the funding in half from April 2022/23 “to give schools time to adjust to these new arrangements”.
Despite objections from councils and schools, ministers have announced this week that they will continue with their plans to remove the grant.
Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) president Charlotte Ramsden says that this decision “appears contrary” to the particularly “crucial role” councils played during the pandemic in helping schools to support children.
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