Public Accounts Committee reveals massive spending on academies

16 October 2007

Commenting on the revelation that more than £50m was spent on just one academy, Steve Sinnott, NUT General Secretary, said:

“The sum spent by the Government on the academies has escalated year by year. At the same time there are schools across the country who would dearly love more funding to ensure their pupils have all the necessary equipment, resources and teachers.

“Every child has a right to the best possible education but the Government’s uneven treatment of different schools with academies being substantially favoured over all others is unacceptable.

“Its concentration of very substantial amounts of public money on just a few headline grabbing institutions will be resented by teachers and parents in the rest of the country’s 23,000 schools.”