ATL comment on Children, Schools and Families Select Committee report on public spending

7th January 2009

Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said:

“The report is asking a lot of the right questions. The Select Committee is right to challenge the Government about using PFI for school building, as this has always been a bad and very expensive deal for English taxpayers.

“The Government has not suggested unravelling the current three-year funding deal for schools, but we are anxious about funding from 2012. Words like productivity and cost-benefit sit uneasily with education’s fundamental role to produce well-rounded, balanced and skilled young people.”

---

Press releases, papers and documents published on this page are the intellectual property of an organisation unrelated to ePolitix.com. We promote their parliamentary and political campaigning activities as they are subscribers to the ePolitix.com service.

As such, ePolitix.com does not edit, endorse, or attempt to balance the opinions expressed on this page. The content of press releases and other such types of content are the responsibility of the originating organisation.