CYP Now - School spending still below 2009 levels with deprived areas worst hit, IFS warns

School spending remains below levels seen more than a decade ago with deprived areas worst affected by cuts to funding, new research shows.

Schools in deprived areas receive less funding per pupil, research shows. Picture: Adobe Stock - Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

Spending per pupil is forecast to be one to two per cent lower than 2009/10 levels by 2022/23, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warns, despite the government ploughing £7bn into education to aid recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Due to the extra funding per pupil spending has increased since 2019/20 when the figure stood at nine per cent lower than 2009/10 levels.

However, Luke Sibieta, research fellow at the IFS and author of the report, said: “The nine per cent fall in school spending per pupil in England over the decade between 2009 and 2019 is the largest in more than 40 years, and probably a lot longer.

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