Claire
I didn't notice any open replies to this, but I have just got hold of a Department for Education circular which has recently been made public and thought it would be worth sharing. Its in the form of a letter from Michael Gove replying to a letter he had from Ed Balls about the governments education priorities and is dated 7 June this year. The text is detailed to say the least, mostly about the Dedicated Schools Grant. Michael Gave says that the Department for Education will 'make a contribution of £670m to the £6.2 billion savings announced by the Chancellor and Chief Secretary on 24th May as a first step in tackling the unprecedented deficit we face'. There is an annex attached which contains a breakdown of £359 million savings.
There is nothing about the specific policies you mention, but the annex contains some evidence of priorities for children and young people as they might affect museums and their partners. These include scaling back the support for delivery of diplomas (savings £13.2m), stopping funding the development of the Diploma and related qualifications (savings £9m), reducing the TDA's non-Initial Teacher Training budgets ie marketing and communications (savings £30m), abolition of BECTA (savings £10m), reductions in 14-19 and youth taskforce communications budgets (savings £4m), ending Entry to Learning pilots (savings £4m), 14-19 efficiencies and 'stopping lower priority projects' (savings £4.1m), not proceeding with Rose curriculum review and scaling back initiatives on PSHE, Citizenship and RE (savings £7m), cancelling last round of grants to Youth Sector Development Fund (savings (8m), not proceeding with new cadre of High Performing Specialist Schools (savings £7m) and there are various other smaller savings from non-frontline funds and projects. There will also be £25m capital savings from Extended Schools and 8m from Specialist Schools.
In time policies will be brought in to cover those reduced or withdrawn, though the only think that seems certain is that the government have committed to develop apprenticeships rather than diplomas and that the agenda is money-saving rather than about education strategy. There is bound to be even more food for thought for us, particularly on local government, in the budget statement this afternoon.
Regards
Brian Holmshaw
Education Consultant
Sheffield
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