SHROPSHIRE SCHOOL FUNDING
Tory Peter Nutting asks why Shropshire Council’s schools funding from the Government is towards the bottom of range.
The reason is that the Tory controlled County Council totally failed to grasp the nettle of the surplus places in Shropshire.
The facts are we have many empty desks in schools across the county, urban and rural. Taxpayers cannot be expected to pay to fund fresh air. We only get paid per actual pupil in school, not per desk available.
The Tories failed to take that hard decision to remove those surplus places, despite drawing up plans to do so in 2008. Instead with elections looming they ducked the issue, with the result we now have £1m less in the budget, with next year another £1m due to be lost.
So please Peter, give voters the real position on school funding and stop misrepresenting it.
