Responding to a government consultation into the future of education funding, the organisation which represents all 33 London boroughs argued that local authorities must have a say in how money is distributed to schools in their area.
London Councils also warned that government plans to introduce a national funding formula are fraught with problems, since they do not take account of the wide variation in different local areas' needs. This could mean that individual schools and pupils lose out, the organisation said.
Steve Reed, London Councils’ executive member for children and young people, said local authorities are concerned that both the proposed national funding formula and the pupil premium could end up putting the pupils they were intended to help at a disadvantage.
"Decisions must be made locally on where to spend school funding because a national funding formula will never have enough flexibility to respond to the specific needs of each school and the pupils who go there," he explained.
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