In October 2018, Rikama Education reported on The Budget made to the public. Within the Budget, it was shown that an extra £400 million capital funding would be issued to schools in England. The establishments eligible for this funding is:
- Special Post-16 institutions that have eligible state-funded pupils
- Sixth Form Colleges
- Non-Maintained Special Schools
- Special Schools
- Pupil Referral Units
- Academies and Free Schools (including UTC’s, studio schools and alternative provision).
- Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools
- Maintained Nursery Schools
It is known that funding can be spent on projects to meet the individual school priorities including improvements to equipment, buildings or facilities.
What schools and headteachers need to know is that this funding will be filtered to appropriate parties from the beginning of February 2019; these payments will be made to local authorities, dioceses or multi-academy trusts who will then pass the money to the schools.
To all headteachers reading this news; think what you can start spending that extra money on. Apparently, primary schools in England will receive roughly £10,000 and secondary schools will receive £50,000.
Let’s hope that this little bit of cash will help out schools, even if it is a small amount of help.