Chancellor’s Comprehensive Spending Review.

9 October 2007

Commenting on the Chancellor’s comprehensive spending review Steve Sinnott General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Europe’s largest teaching union said:

“Against a chilly spending climate, the Government has managed to maintain spending on education at 5.6% of the national cake.

“ Many of the measures such as increased funding for personalised learning and new investment for primary schools honour previous Government commitments. Maintaining growth has got to be a good message for the education service.

“I want the Chancellor now to announce when he intends to meet the target of raising state education funding to private school levels.

“In order to maintain teaching as an attractive profession there has to be sufficient funding to enable teachers’ salaries to at least keep pace with inflation”.