NEWS FROM
NORTHUMBERLAND LABOUR
Northumberland
predicted to lose over £10m with 268 teaching posts at risk as South East
Northumberland targeted by Government in cuts to schools
Plans to ‘savage’ Northumberland school
budgets by over £10m have been branded as an act of ‘educational vandalism’ by
the Labour party in Northumberland.
The cuts introduced by the Conservative government have
raised doubts about whether teachers will be targeted as part of school cost
cutting with the NUT predicting that 268 teaching posts could be lost across
Northumberland with 174 posts at risk in the South East alone.
Government plans have been scrutinised by the NUT and figures
released through www.schoolcuts.org.uk
website and Labour are mounting a campaign to halt Conservative school cuts
across Northumberland as every town is set to lose out. The NUT predict 268
teachers could lose their jobs. The county is set to lose out by over £10m with
pupil spending dropping by a whopping £260 per head on average. The South East
of the County where nearly half of the county residents live is particularly
hardest hit.
With the news that schools in Northumberland will lose huge
chunks of their income directly paid to them from the Conservative Government
over the next few years, Northumberland Labour have launched an investigation
into how schools will deliver an ever-improving set of results against savage
Conservative cuts.
Now Labour councillors are calling on opposition councillors
in Northumberland to back the Labour campaign to halt the education cuts.
Labour Councillors in
the County group said
“What this Tory
government is doing is akin to educational vandalism. Cutting school budgets in
Blyth and across Northumberland is literally taking opportunities away from our
children and it's disgraceful that local Conservatives continue their vow of
silence when it comes to their government cuts to Northumberland's budgets. In
communities like Blyth Ashington, Newbiggin, Bedlington and Cramlington, the
extra investment that flowed into schools under the last Labour government has
been almost totally reversed and now our schools face rising class sizes, fewer
teachers, less cash per pupil and squeezed school budgets under a Tory
government that is committed to educational vandalism. These savage cuts are
hitting South East Northumberland hardest with Cambois school hardest hit in
the whole county. It’s time local opposition councillors and activists started
to stand up for their communities instead of sitting meekly while their
government economically pillages Northumberland’s communities”.
Councillor Robert
Arckless Portfolio holder for Childrens Services said:
“I’m shocked at the scale of these cuts and who they’re
targeted at. Every corner of our county will see school budgets savagely cut
under these proposals and I hope that opposition councillors and supporters
will join us to make our case to government why Northumberland needs more help
not less. At a time when the county council has and is investing over £50m in new
schools the government is pledging to cut the budgets to support what happens
in the classrooms. Those policies may work in Chelsea and Kensington but one
look at the average earnings levels here in the Northumberland show how that
London centric policy can’t work here. I’m pleased the effects are to be fully
investigated.”
Notes
Cuts to South East Area Schools
TOWN
|
SCHOOL
|
Budget
change by 2020 - MINUS
|
CUT
PER PUPIL
|
CUT
TEACHING
POSTS
|
BEDLINGTON
|
St Benet Biscop Catholic Academy
|
£300,163
|
£336 per pupil
|
8
|
Meadowdale Academy
|
£48,796
|
£114
|
1
|
|
St Bede's Roman Catholic Voluntary
Aided Primary School
|
£64,224
|
£308
|
1
|
|
Bedlington West End First School
|
£83,902
|
£303
|
1
|
|
Stead Lane Primary School
|
£104,371
|
£521
|
2
|
|
Cambois Primary School
|
£54,895
|
£980
|
1
|
|
NEWBIGGIN
|
Northumberland CofE Academy
|
£956,988
|
£458
|
25
|
St Aidan's Roman Catholic Voluntary
Aided
|
£84,260
|
£460
|
2
|
|
CRAMLINGTON
|
Cramlington Village Primary School
|
£41,349
|
£353
|
1
|
Burnside Primary School
|
£118,365
|
£283
|
2
|
|
Cramlington Northburn Primary School
|
£94,984
|
£300
|
2
|
|
Cramlington Eastlea Primary School
|
£53,233
|
£277
|
1
|
|
Cramlington Shanklea Primary School
|
£71,943
|
£204
|
1
|
|
Beaconhill Community Primary School
|
£77,824
|
£397
|
2
|
|
St Paul's Catholic Academy
|
£58,822
|
£459
|
1
|
|
Hareside Primary School
|
£95,849
|
£230
|
2
|
|
Cramlington Learning Village
|
£438,340
|
£265
|
11
|
|
St Peter's Catholic Academy
|
£11,668
|
£126
|
||
Cragside CofE Controlled Primary
School
|
£83,768
|
£233
|
2
|
|
MORPETH
|
Morpeth All Saints Church of England
Aided First School
|
£43,869
|
£296
|
1
|
The King Edward VI Academy
|
£228,808
|
£231
|
6
|
|
Morpeth Chantry Middle School
|
£63,289
|
£126
|
1
|
|
Morpeth Newminster Middle School
|
£21,312
|
£41
|
1
|
|
St Robert's Roman Catholic Voluntary
Aided First School
|
£29,837
|
£219
|
1
|
|
Morpeth First School
|
£74,700
|
£247
|
2
|
|
Abbeyfields First School
|
£14,496
|
£51
|
||
Morpeth Stobhillgate First School
|
£65,845
|
£460
|
1
|
|
ASHINGTON
|
Ashington High School
|
£397,041
|
£416
|
10
|
Bothal Primary School
|
£143,580
|
£296
|
3
|
|
St Benedict's Roman Catholic Voluntary
Aided Middle School
|
£20,612
|
£104
|
1
|
|
Northumberland CofE Academy
|
£956,988
|
£458
|
25
|
|
St Aidan's Roman Catholic Voluntary
Aided First School
|
£84,260
|
£460
|
2
|
|
Central Primary School
|
£210,343
|
£402
|
5
|
|
BLYTH
|
Blyth Academy
|
180,731
|
247
|
4
|
New Delaval Primary
|
99,530
|
546
|
2
|
|
Newsham Primary
|
186,703
|
495
|
5
|
|
Bede Academy
|
479,613
|
313
|
12
|
|
Croftway Primary
|
222,746
|
558
|
5
|
|
St Wilfrids Primary
|
94,568
|
338
|
2
|
|
Malvins Close Primary
|
277,061
|
664
|
7
|
|
Morpeth Road Primary
|
240,190
|
692
|
6
|
|
Horton Grange Primary
|
158,189
|
472
|
4
|
|
Seghill First School
|
£36,049
|
£360
|
2
|
|
Astley Community High School
|
£114,663
|
£260
|
2
|
|
Seaton Delaval First School
|
£44,088
|
£272
|
1
|
|
Holywell Village First School
|
£37,862
|
£278
|
1
|
|
Seaton Sluice First School
|
£34,851
|
£224
|
1
|
CUTS TO NORTH AND WEST COUNTY SCHOOLS
TOWN
|
SCHOOL
|
Budget change by 2020 - MINUS
|
CUT PER PUPIL
|
CUT
TEACHING
POSTS
|
HEXHAM
|
Hexham
East First School
|
£27,748
|
£233
|
1
|
Queen
Elizabeth High School
|
£125,696
|
£145
|
3
|
|
St Mary's
Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided First School
|
£27,968
|
£291
|
1
|
|
The Sele
First School
|
£42,099
|
£105
|
||
BERWICK
|
Holy
Trinity Church of England First School
|
£36,797
|
£257
|
2
|
St
Cuthbert's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided First School, Berwick
|
£20,468
|
£314
|
1
|
|
Tweedmouth
West First School
|
£36,975
|
£253
|
2
|
|
Tweedmouth
Community Middle School
|
£30,590
|
£85
|
1
|
|
Tweedmouth
Prior Park First School
|
£31,050
|
£217
|
1
|
|
Berwick
Academy
|
£113,578
|
£221
|
2
|
|
Spittal
Community School
|
£25,510
|
£196
|
1
|
|
ALNWICK
|
Swansfield
Park First School
|
£54,515
|
£265
|
1
|
St Paul's
RC Voluntary Aided First School
|
£27,211
|
£207
|
1
|
|
The
Duchess's Community High School
|
£83,833
|
£107
|
2
|
|
St
Michael's Church of England First School
|
£25,980
|
£207
|
1
|
|
James
Calvert Spence College - Acklington Road
|
£73,690
|
£302
|
1
|
|
Amble
First School
|
£31,363
|
£263
|
1
|
|
Amble
Links First School
|
£63,117
|
£493
|
1
|
|
PRUDHOE
|
Prudhoe
Castle First School
|
£15,615
|
£140
|
|
Prudhoe
West First School
|
£35,879
|
£134
|
1
|
|
St
Matthew's Catholic Primary School
|
£15,414
|
£124
|
||
Highfield
Middle School
|
£8,235
|
£19
|
||
Prudhoe
Community High School
|
£72,232
|
£128
|
1
|
|
Mickley
First School
|
£28,715
|
£441
|
1
|
|
Broomley
First School
|
£30,282
|
£232
|
1
|
|
Broomhaugh
Church of England First School
|
£17,288
|
£227
|
||
Ovingham
Church of England First School
|
£20,961
|
£166
|
1
|
|
Wylam
First School
|
£27,396
|
£201
|
1
|
|
HALTWHISTLE
|
Haltwhistle
Community Campus Lower School
|
£27,561
|
£155
|
1
|
HAYDON BRIDGE
|
Haydon
Bridge Community High School and Sports College
|
£42,732
|
£103
|
1
|
Haydon
Bridge Shaftoe Trust Primary School
|
£15,837
|
£129
|
||
PONTELAND
|
Heddon-on-the-Wall,
St Andrew's Church of England First School
|
£41,302
|
£375
|
1
|
Darras
Hall First School
|
£112,338
|
£253
|
3
|
|
Ponteland
Community High School
|
£141,347
|
£185
|
3
|
|
Ponteland
Middle School per pupil
|
£36,314
|
£60
|
1
|
|
Ponteland
First School
|
£57,783
|
£193
|
1
|
|
Richard
Coates Church of England School
|
£4,226
|
£9
|
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