Vox Pop: Should school funding be protected from cutbacks?

9 July 2010 2 mins read Education

A recent Local Government Authority survey found almost a third of people support protecting money for schools.

YES - Steve Stewart, chief executive, Connexions, Coventry and Warwickshire

I think funding for schools should be ringfenced. However, schools have got to use the money to meet the new demands and pressures facing young people during this terrible financial climate. I would like to see schools investing more money into personal development programmes, which develop employability, skills and confidence among young people.

We also need high-quality alternative education programmes so that nobody gets excluded from school. If schools invested as much in young people's development as they do in their attainment then I would be happy for school funding to be ringfenced.

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