Legacy of opt-out decade;Letter
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Legacy of opt-out decade;Letter
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Undoubtedly the GM experience has had an effect on the new schools framework. The most appropriate overview we can all now make is an assessment of how it can benefit children’s education in schools of whatever category.
The vast majority of GM governors and headteachers will, with absolute conviction, testify that they were able to extract the very best value from the spending they controlled. As far as capital funding is concerned, GM schools have also had to raise additional contributions under the Funding Agency for Schools seed challenge funding schemes. Schools have generated an additional pound;158.36 million on top of the agency’s grant funding of pound;49m.
That, by and large, governors and headteachers of GM schools of every size and pupil-base have taken on extra responsibility and achieved more successful outcomes with it should give assurance to other schools that the new framework gives them similar opportunities LEAs should be confident in encouraging schools to embrace.
Sir Anthony Tippet
Chairman
Funding Agency for Schools
Albion Wharf
25 Skeldergate, York
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