The government announced today that it was looking to overhaul the way in which state schools are funded, in order to make it a more fairer system. Well this is what they tell us, or is it just another measure to control spending and in turn save money, which will inevitably mean that schools lose out. The main problem with the new concept is that it will be run by a centralised authority dictating what schools are allowed, for years the job of school funding was left in the hands of local authorities. I believe that central government already struggles with the many tasks that it sets out to achieve, their proposal suggests that they will listen to individual schools and their respected head teachers in order to fund to the needs of the school. The main issues of concern with such a move comes from the amount of time that this will take government to achieve and how many bureaucrats will be needed to solve such a vast problem, in order to apparently make funding fairer and reflect the needs of the specific school. I understand that currently two similar schools that are close in proximity but funded by two separate local authorities can have vast differences in their resources but will central government really make a difference or will it just end up costing more to administer such a system?
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