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School closures
London Councils, representing local authorities in the capital, produced a report ‘Finding the Balance’ on falling education class numbers and the effect on school budgets.
They call for more consistency in school closure process and powers to manage surplus school buildings.
The news site MyLondon has published a similar article.
It explains that the funding allocated for each individual school is directly tied to the number of students it has enrolled so many individual schools are facing a funding crisis.
Youth unemployment
Centre for London has published a report on London’s high youth unemployment figures. One in four young Londoners are unemployed.
The report examines apprenticeships, which London businesses are less likely to offer than elsewhere and the shrinking of the entry level job market.
Centre for London concludes that the problem is not that young Londoners lack ambition or that London’s education system is failing. It is that the transition from education into employment has become too fragile, too competitive and too dependent on informal support.
School funding crisis
A London Councils’ report forecasts a decline of 3.8% in Year 7 places and 2.5% in reception places between 2025/6 and 2029/30. Inner London faces the sharpest drop, as demand for Year 7 places is expected to fall by 7.6% and reception places by 6.4% over the next four years: 50,000 fewer school places.
Because school funding is allocated on a per-pupil basis that would lead to around £15m in funding cuts for primary schools and £30m for secondary schools in London.
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