Labour hopes to raise £1.7bn through its private school VAT plan – but the ASCL warns that still isn't enough to avert a looming crisis of staff shortages and funding deficits
Labour hopes to raise £1.7bn through its private school VAT plan – but the ASCL warns that still isn't enough to avert a looming crisis of staff shortages and funding deficitswithin its first year in power if it wins the next general election, which it hopes will raise £1.7bn for state education.
Mr Di’lasio, a headteacher at Wales High School, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, takes over at the ASCL from his predecessor Geoff Barton on 8 April. The Institute for Fiscal Studies warned in October, following the Autumn Statement, that departments were facing real terms spending cuts of 3.4 per cent per year.
Labour has promised to spend the money raised from the VAT raid on private schools on “recruiting thousands more expert teachers, deliver mental health counselling in every school, and early language support for our youngest children”. Mr Di’lasio is making the call for increased investment in education his “number one priority”. He described it as the “golden thread to allow us to do so much more”.
Mr Di’lasio defied Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to “come and look at how schools are running right now”, adding they have been “cut back in every way, shape and form”.and there is no money for replacement classrooms or to fix roofs that leak in the rain, teachers have revealed. Labour has committed to reforming Ofsted as a priority if it wins the election, following the death of primary school headteacher Ruth Perry who took her own life after her school was downgraded.
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