Sir, – North Yorkshire County Council would lose a quarter of its schools budget, almost £160m, for the Conservatives where to meet their future target public spending cuts.
Rresearch shows that the Tories would have to cut the education budget by 25 per cent to meet George Osborne’s spending targets by 2020. North Yorkshire’s schools budget would have to be reduced from £630m to £470.4m.
Nationally there would have to be a reduction of £13.3bn, the equivalent of sacking 2,560 head teachers and 430 teaching assistants, and a £7.7m cut from the pupil premium and 19.4m from the DfE’s 16-19yrs budget, ending the funding for 4,864 young adults.
Labour have also failed to rule out major cuts to schools, colleges and nurseries.
CHRIS FOOTE-WOOD
Prospective parliamentary LibDem candidate for Richmond.
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