Commenting on the announcement that all secondary schools in bands four and five will receive £10,000 each, Angela Burns AM, Shadow Minister for Education, said:
“For all the Minister’s talk of a package of ‘extensive’ and ‘differentiated’ support, this is a crude and simplistic one-off payment, which fails to tailor assistance to the needs of each school.
“The schools in bands 4 and 5 were assessed as poorly performing in any combination of 12 different criteria so a one-size fits all response is unlikely to be ideally suited to the needs of each school.
“While any additional funding for schools is welcome, £10,000 is a drop in the ocean and will do little to improve the £604 per pupil shortfall in Welsh schools because of Labour’s consistent underfunding.”
