Over £2.8 million of additional funding will be invested in local schools from over the coming school year, part of the largest cash increase to school funding in a decade.
The funding boost will see an increase in per pupil funding for every school in the Havant Constituency by at least 2%, with some such as Purbrook Infant School, Morelands Primary School and Mengham Infant School receiving more than double this.
Nationally the overall schools budget is rising by is 3.2%. However, in Havant the rise in the overall budget for all our schools combined is 4.2%.
Every school in Havant will also continue to receive more than the national minimum in terms of per-pupil funding. Each primary school receives £4,891 per pupil on average and each secondary school receives £6,219 on average. The national minimum per-pupil funding figure is £4,265 (per primary pupil) and £5525 (per secondary pupil).
The announced rise fulfils the Government’s commitment to invest an additional £14.4 billion in English schools in the three years up to 2022-23, with an extra £7.1 billion of funding due in the coming year alone. As part of this commitment, support for children with special educational needs and disabilities will receive a particular boost in the next school year of £780 million, or an additional 9.6 per cent. This follows the £1.5 billion increase over the previous two years, and brings the total high needs budget to £8.9 billion, an increase of over a third since 2019-20.
The rise also comes on top of the over £3 billion which has already been committed to support education recovery in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Local MP Alan Mak said: “I’ve campaigned in Westminster for more funding for local schools since 2015 and I’m delighted that every school in the Havant Constituency is getting an increase in per pupil funding.