Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey schools to get a substantial increase in funding from 2013/14
The government today announced that Haringey will be treated as an inner London borough for the purposes of mandatory teachers pay, which will bring it in line with neighbours such as Camden, Hackney and Islington. Haringey has been legally required to pay its teachers inner London salaries even though it receives outer London funding. Our schools are now set to benefit from substantial additional funding from 2013/14. In Hackney, they receive £1500 more per pupil per year, than we do in Haringey.
More on the story from The Journal, here.
Tags for Forum Posts: fair_funding_for_haringey, schools
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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A break through that Haringey is not strictly sub urban, and faces the same struggle as Inner London Boroughs, facing challenges to educate our children collectively.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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I look forward to a flood of posts congratulating the Coalition on getting it right.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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The point, John, is not only that this is the right decision by the Coalition Government. It's also the result of effective, fair and justified arguments made by everyone who has campaigned for the long overdue change.
I'm curious to see who will now try to claim sole credit. And who will have the grace to acknowledge the part played by the coalition of a wide range of local voices. Among them: school governors; parents; staff and their trades unions; the Council; and both Haringey MPs.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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the right decision by the Coalition Government
Agreed.
I wonder, Alan, if you might agree that this also would have been the right decision by the Labour Government, at anytime in the 13 (thirteen) year period from 1997 to 2010 and when there was more money available. Had they chosen to do so.
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Yes.
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Permalink Reply by JumpingtheWaves on
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I'd love to be whooping with joy over this and in some ways it is great news. But for some schools in Haringey, Downhills amongst them, this seems to be coming way too late in the day. What could have been done with all that extra funding years ago?
And if the government continue to push ahead with their plans to remove more and more schools from LA control, where will that extra money actually be going? Funnily enough my husband predicted this when the whole academies issue blew up. He said don't be surprised if sometime very soon Haringey suddenly gets that extra pupil premium funding so that the academies can muscle in on it - and hey presto! He tends to be a cynical old thing my hubby, but he's also pretty astute about things too...
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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Congratulations to all those who campaigned and a begrudging thanks to the coalition
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Won't the challenge now be for local schools (such as South & North Harringay, Chestnuts etc) to target this long overdue money to ensure that that cove Gove, or his Labour successor, will never have the slightest excuse for using the new Wilshaw Ofsted machinery as a willing tool to forcibly introduce a Harris or even Turkish rug-seller "Academy" in these parts?
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