Falling rolls impact on budgets

By James Tweed, Nursery World, 6 November 2003

Falling rolls will affect the budgets of a 'significant' number of primary schools in England next year. The admission by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) that it expected the number of pupils to fall by a further 50,000 next year, on top of the 50,000 fewer pupils this year, was made last week as education secretary Charles Clarke sought to 'restore stability and certainty' to school budgets over the next two years.

Falling rolls will affect the budgets of a 'significant' number of primary schools in England next year. The admission by the Department for Education and Skills...

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