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United Kingdom Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, has vowed to protect schools’ cash budgets per pupil until 2020 in a future Conservative government. The announcement pledged to have a real-term cut in funding for schools over the next parliament after inflation.
While making the announcement at Kingsmead School in Enfield on Monday, Cameron alleged that the amount of funding allocated per pupils would not be cut before 2020. He stated that the “flat cash per pupil” would not account for inflation prompting school leaders to claim it amounts to a de facto reduction in the long term. He pointed out that “we have demonstrated in the past five years that we can protect the schools budget while reducing the deficit – and we will do so again. So I can tell you with a Conservative government, the amount of money following your child into school will not be cut.” Cameron stressed that as the number of pupils in schools will increase, the amount of money going into schools would increase too.
Whereas on o the other hand, education minister Tristram Hunt alleged that the Conservative’s promises to protect schools budgets are “unravelling”. Hunt stated that “David Cameron has been forced to admit that his plans will see a real-terms cut to spending on schools,” adding that “the truth is that you can’t protect schools when you have plans to take spending as a share of GDP back to levels not seen since the 1930s.”
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